In a chilling video live on Facebook, a man has detailed how he stabbed his girlfriend to death and the reason behind his decision. After doing the live explaining his reason for the gruesome act, the 36-year-old man from Ga-Mashamothane, outside Burgersfort in Limpopo, went on to commit suicide by hanging himself on a tree.

'WHY I KILLED HER'

In the video the man claimed that his girlfriend had been cheating on him with a local school teacher when he was away at work. "I have heard too many times that she has been sleeping with the teacher who is her ex. She told me that the teacher made her drop out of school because he always wanted to sleep with her,' he said. He reiterated that he wanted the video to stay on his Facebook profile to serve as a lesson to others. He also said he was told that his 24-year-old girlfriend was still sleeping with the teacher. "I then decided to kill her, I went to her and stabbed her once in the neck and she bled profusely, but I could see that she was not dead and I continued to stab her multiple times all over her body. I then told her to rest in peace and that I loved her. I was angry,' he explained. "The way I killed that girl is painful, she didn't deserve it. I am also going to kill myself the same way.'

The tree where the man hanged himself.

"TAKE ME HOME'

It is said that after the live video, he drove his black Audi to a nearby river where he wrote a note with the number of a person and contacts. He also wrote on the note: "Take me home'. Limpopo SAPS spokesperson Colonel Malesela Ledwaba confirmed the incident. "Police were summoned to the scene at a rental place in Ga-Mashamothane village and on their arrival, they found the body of a woman who might be in her late 20s with multiple stab wounds lying outside the rented room,' Ledwaba said. He added that the police received another information that the deceased's boyfriend was found hanging in the nearby bushes. They rushed to the scene and found the deceased's vehicle parked on the roadside and his body hanging from the tree. It is believed that the boyfriend stabbed his girlfriend to death and dumped her body at the rental place and then drove to the bushes and hanged himself.The identities of the deceased will be released in due course,' he said. Limpopo police commissioner Lieutenant General Thembi Hadebe strongly condemned the incident. "We are very saddened by the incident and still urge community members who are experiencing domestic challenges to seek help immediately instead of resorting to violence," Hadebe said. The police have opened cases of murder and inquest.