muti

Evidence was given at the trial that the deceased’s heart was cut out, cooked and eaten. This aspect is mentioned because the Committee had to consider whether the killing was what is commonly known as a muti-murder.

... who killed her and I was not told anything. We went to a spot where we meet before patrolling and Ntjebe sprinkled Ntelezi, which is a traditional muti, on us so that we can patrol. It was half past nine, passed nine when we went to comrade Sibulelo's place, then we were guarding the ...

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 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 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?

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 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.

They came with muti's for people to, you know some of them call it intelezi, where you have to drink it and get courage for yourself to be able to withstand the war, to sometimes smell blood.