KURUMAN, South Africa -- A volunteer working for Legbo Northern Cape in Kuruman has been beheaded for being gay, the NGO said Tuesday night.

Thapelo Makutle, 23, was found dead in his rented room on Saturday.

Police reported that he had been found with his throat slit, but the NGO said that he had been beheaded.

“Witnesses told us that on Friday night two heterosexual men had an argument with Thapelo because of his sexual orientation,” Legbo director Shain Griqua said from Kimberley.