Police in the Southern Cape have identified the elderly man who died during a house robbery in Sedgefield on Monday night.
Spokesperson Captain Malcolm Pojie says he was the 80-year-old Peter Henson.
Henson's dog was seen wandering the streets which led a community member to investigate.
Pojie says Henson was overpowered in his house in Paul Kruger Street before his hands were tied behind his back and his mouth gagged with a cloth.
A concerned community member discovered Henson's body on the floor in his house and contacted police who declared him dead on the scene.
Pojie says Knysna detectives quickly responded and arrested two suspects in their later twenties within hours of the crime.
The men stole a DSTV decoder, a knife, some personal belongings and the deceased's personal diary.
The suspects, who are from Smutsville were taken into custody and will appear in the Knysna Magistrates Court soon on a charge of house robbery and murder.
An autopsy will now be done on the deceased to determine the exact cause of death.
In August another elderly man died during a house robbery in St Francis Bay when he too was tied up and gagged.
The autopsy revealed that the well-known businessman, 76-year-old Duncan Lethbridge, died from suffocation.
