muti

... to Nlundi, they were found to be weak. They were asked to go back to Wesselton to kill women, to come back with their private parts to be used as muti. Those people who were in Nlundi were trained there in Nkuza and I believe some of them had to be trained with those that went to Caprivi Strip ...

Then an idea came to me and I thought maybe people wanted to kill me for muti or something, because people are not good. As I was sit up like this, the old lady, I urinated just then and there and I told them look I cannot get murdered right in the house, it is better if you can apply your ...

MR MAMOME: Decomposed, Mr Chairman. We don’t know where the story came about that it was for muti purposes. Now, the house was searched so that we could find if whether there were many children.

MR GUMBI: The reason for us to set him alight, we had a belief that, we knew that these IFP members, most of them, they believed in muti, we did not want to find ourselves in trouble.

The body of Moses was discovered some months later hanging from a tree. Some of the body parts had been removed from the body in a style reminiscent of a muti-killing.

MR MEMANI: And you you did not instruct your lawyers that Nicos’ bussiness was burnt because of some suspected muti murder, did you?

ADV SIGODI: I just want to get some clarity on the position of Edward Mahvunga. Is it your case that Edward was evicted because he himself was a witch, was practising witchcraft? Or is it your case that Edward was evicted because he was making use of muti to sustain his position in the society?

MR VISSER: All right. Did you hear a rumour in regard to this murder of this, I think it was a little girl, a rumour that it was a muti murder?

ADV DE JAGER: And you believed that this man was protected by muti that's why you hit him with a knobkierie?

MR KUDZINGANA: They were thought to be giving the high officials, the people who were running the Venda Government, they were assisting by giving them muti so that they can be intact in their positions.

... to escape.  They told him that they had come to fetch him so they could go and meet Dumisani Malunga.  The latter was going to get them "muti" (traditional medicine) in order that they could carry out the action without fear.  Khumalo states that for his own safety he decided to ...

They were all placed in plastic bags labelled in other words - I can remember the one gentleman had muti around his neck and one had documents and the one had a firearm etcetera - etcetera. Everything collected from each corpse was placed into individual plastic bags - labelled and handed to Major ...

He looked for Jamile.  He said that he used muti to find him as he had difficulty locating him.  First Applicant then saw him one day.  He waited for him to come by.  He only saw Mr Jamile in his motor vehicle.  He could not see others in the motor vehicle because of the tinted windows.  He ...

MS MAKHUBELE: But did you at any stage before you were detained in Lusaka get involved in their activities other than the provision of muti?

MR SEREKO: They wanted to enrich themselves to take people’s parts as muti to, then they would take your parts to - and go with them.

MR TLADI: He uses muti.

At times I used to disguise as a Sangoma and go to forests pretending that I was looking for some muti or medicine in the forests and I knew that I was going to do my job as a politician. I fought very hard.

MR DLADLA: Thereafter he sprinkled us with muti.

this boy and we searched him. In his hand, he had a piece of paper with the medicine inside and in his pocket, he had some small bottles containing muti. We took him, we said we are going to show him where Buyafuthi was. We took him down Gubeni Street and I was the one who was holding him. I ...

... to me is the continuous taking of lives of young children in order to obtain body parts for the use of producing what has been referred to as muti. In a democratic society where we all strive to be civilised, this cannot carry on. Those who seek such assistance and involve themselves in ...