A six-year-old boy was beaten to death and his body then burnt while on his way to a shop at Sundumbili in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday night, police said on Friday. Captain Vishnu Naidoo said Thandokwakhe Manguele was sent to the shop by his grandmother when a 22-year-old man allegedly beat him with a stick and then burnt his body. The man was arrested and will appear in the Sundumbili Magistrate’s Court on Monday. In another incident on Thursday, a 65-year-old woman was shot dead at the Magogo area of Nqutu in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Kakiwe Mkhize was walking to a shop when three men shot her in the neck and face. The motive for the murder is unknown. Also on Thursday in northern KwaZulu-Natal, Mthethowakhe Gwala was shot dead in Umsunduzi. He was shot in the back with a 9mm pistol. No arrests were made. – Sapa