Two intruders broke into his room in Johannesburg on Sunday night and one of them stabbed the New Zealander during a struggle, the Nine Network reported.
The intruders then tied him up and fled.
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Mitchell, 46, who is in South Africa coaching the Lions for next year's Super 15 competition, was being treated in hospital.
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