Foreign Affairs spokesman Ndivhuwo Mabaya says South Africa’s High Commissioner in Maputo has been ordered to investigate the death.

The death of Andre Hankom is confirmed by his wife Francis and daughter Andrie.

The 61 year old had lived in Mozambique for 26 years.

He was a hunter and game fisherman.

Friends says his arrest as a suspected supporters of a terror group responsible for scores of gruesome killings in Cabo Delgado Province was a result of mistaken identity, or his being framed by business rivals or scapegoated.

His widow says authorities were trying to gain access to his seafront property which looks over the rich gas deposits in the province.

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