EvDEn EVE nakliyAT<\/a> where the two victims lived overlook the open field where one of the mutiated victims was found as South Africa Police contain the scene<\/p>\n<\/div>\nMost sangomas or traditional healers often known as witch doctors are law abiding and abhor muti killings but confirm amongst them that there are those who are ‘evil’.<\/p>\n
After the recovery of tragic Bontle’s body the provisional police spokesperson Brigadier Selvy Mohlala told City Express how muti killings were carried out.<\/p>\n
He said: ‘The majority of perpetrators confirm they harvest the body organs while the victim is still alive and these operations involve more than one person.<\/p>\n
‘However the sangoma is the key person in all of this.<\/p>\n
‘Muti killings are incredibly gruesome as victims are dismembered while alive and sangomas order genitals, fingers, hands, kneecaps, tongues and eyes.<\/p>\n
‘The common trait among the killers was that they held a strong belief in the power of muti made from human organs and that they are not very well educated.<\/p>\n
‘The chain is a client then the sangoma and then their harvester who is the murderer then the victim and the killers are paid according to parts they get’ he said.<\/p>\n
The community where little Nqobile and Tshiamo were so horrifically murdered and mutilated is demanding swift justice from the police to find the killers.<\/p>\n
Zulu’s mother Nomthandazo and grandmother Mapiti Tshabalala asked to see the body before it was taken away and his mum collapsed and gran fainted.<\/p>\n
Zulu lived with his gran Mapiti and Rabanye lived with his gran Nqobile Ndlovu and both went to Isiseko Primary School in White City and were close friends.<\/p>\n
Forensic psychologist Dr Gerard Labuschagne the former head of the SA Police Service Psychology Unit has written extensively on muti murders in South Africa.<\/p>\n
He has carried out over 30 muti investigations and said three links are usually involved – the client, the traditional healer or sangoma and the murderer or murderers.<\/p>\n
Two where body parts are ‘stolen to order’ for witchdoctors. Three young pals were kidnapped in Soweto on Wednesday as they played in a park and one escaped but his best friends both met the most horrific of deaths. Muti killings involve the removal of body parts while the victim is traditionally still alive which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5113],"tags":[5078],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71426,"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71425\/revisions\/71426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.announcement.news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}