- A 42-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly killing a
woman and removing parts of her body in Thohoyandou, Limpopo police
said today. The man's arrest follows the murder last year of a
35-year-old woman, said Ailwei Mushavhanamadi, a police spokesperson.
March 31, 2007, 13:30
- The murder apparently happened on December 9 2006, a day after
the year-end party at Tsitsikamma diamond mine near Plooysburg.
Modise said preliminary investigations were conducted, and police
suspected that Sedumoeng was the victim of a ritual murder.
March 19, 2007
- Muti hijack foiled:
The
continuous spate of ritual murders in Vhembe is a fact. This follows
after Mashudu Munzhelele (35) of Tshifudi, Munangwa village,
unexpectedly overpowered suspected ritual killers who wanted to
murder him for muti purposes at the Mutshundudzi River on Monday.
August 11, 2006
- The latest victim of ritual
murder:
Ms Thinandavha was buried
at her home village of Mulodi during the weekend. Her mutilated body
was discovered at Mulodi Mountain last Sunday. Her upper lip, right
handpalm, left ear and the front part of her breasts were sliced off.
She was naked from the waist down and a rope was tied around her
neck.
August 2006
- Another case of ritual killing:
Pretoria police are offering a reward for information leading to the
arrest and conviction of the killers of four-year-old Connie Ncube.
In what appeared to be a muti killing, her mutilated body was found
in a river in Nellmapius, east of Pretoria, in February.
March 28, 2006
- South African police accused of
ignoring ritual murders:
Even in a country grown accustomed to
horrific acts of violence, it is a crime that still shocks. ''Muti
murder'', in which human body parts are removed to be used in
traditional "medicine", is increasing in South Africa - but victims'
families complain that the police too often ignore it.
March 26, 2006
- In South Africa, where the
government set up a Commission of Inquiry into Witchcraft Violence
and Ritual Murders after a spate of killings of boys aged between
one and six in Soweto, it is estimated that at least 300 people have
been murdered for their body parts in the past decade. The figure
could be as high as 500 a year.
April
8, 2003
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Putting the spotlight on muti murders
Since the gruesome discovery of a young African boy’s torso in the
Thames River in September 2001 in London, Oliver G. Becker embarked on
an intensive study of the subject of muti murders. The young boy, known
to Scotland Yard only as Adam, was brutally killed and slaughtered for
muti purposes (...)
Becker has produced several documentaries and a scientific paper on the
matter.
August 11, 2006 |
