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| AlphaNumericus | 2008-06-08 11:18:10 PM |
There were no classes at Nhlangano Central High School yesterday as the 30 teachers staged a protest march against one deputy principal whom they accused of practicing witchcraft.
The march follows a bizarre incident in which the deputy was allegedly caught performing weird rituals in an incident that angered colleagues.
The teacher is said to have been caught red handed sprinkling muti in one of the offices last week...
The teachers say they are scared of what the deputy's rituals may impact on them, negatively...
Police spokesman, Superintendent Vusi Masuku confirmed that the teachers submitted a list of concerns about the deputy's love for muti and office rituals. The letter was, however copied to the commander and addressed to the regional education officer.
Mutilated body found in Vaal
Vaal Rand police are looking for the family of an unidentified boy aged between six and seven years who was found brutally murdered at the weekend.
It is believed the boy's body was mutilated for muti purposes because his private parts were missing.
Women relive muti deaths terror
The community of Adam's Mission, in Umbumbulu, lived in fear for four months.
Today, they are relieved that a sangoma and five alleged serial killers are going to court accused of the brutal mut i killings of nine women...
Most of the women were dragged into the veld and raped. Their ears, tongues, breasts and genitalia were hacked off.
Police try to discover motive for muti killings
Poplice are carefully going over all evidence again in the gruesome muti killings in Mzamba near Bizana in a bid to discover what motivated the killers.
Bhisho's Safety and Security head of department Bashir Hoosain said they were trying to find an answer to whether the killings were an act of organised crime, human parts trafficking or just the actions of youths on the rampage.
A group of up to 300 young men killed 15 people who were accused of being witches and wizards in western Kenya on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, in some cases slitting their throats or clubbing them to death before burning their bodies, officials said.
The young men went through two villages, looking for anyone on a list of suspected witches and wizards that included the kind of spells individuals were believed to have cast, a local official.
He said the villagers complained that the suspected wizards and witches were "making the bright children in the community dumb."
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The Biblical Cain and Abel story was re-enacted in the Northern Region when a man killed his brother and ate parts of his flesh.
The gory murder occurred in the village of Guabulga near Walewale, a Mamprusi area, according to a Police source.
The suspected murderer, Amadu Osman, a 25-year-old farmer, killed his elder brother, Alhassan Osman, and cut off his arms, penis and scrotum.
Following the gruesome act, the suspect buried the remains of his victim under a heap of rocks and leaves, after feasting on one of the arms of his brother on their farm near the village.
The family members of Fortune Khumalo, 8, who had his genitals cut off last year, were fuming yesterday after the sentencing of muti merchant Lucky Simango, was postponed for the second time by the Malamulele regional court...
Fortune was playing soccer with friends when he went into a field to relieve himself. There he was attacked by Simango who cut off his genitals. Simango was later found with the parts in his possession.
Police have discovered the body of a four-year-old boy at Mpheko near Mthatha. The body had several stab wounds and its private parts were cut off...
Police say the buyer of the private parts was in KwaNongoma, KwaZulu Natal. The man was arrested and will be charged with murder.
Since August last year, at least 18 people, mainly women, have been killed for muti purposes in the Bizana area of the Transkei.
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Rise in ritual killings in Gabon
When the body of 13-year-old Ralph Edang N'na was found drained of blood and with gaping wounds in his genitals, chest and neck last month, many in Gabon thought it was politicians who had ordered his killing.
The murder of children and young adults, whose organs are eaten or used to make magical amulets, has increased in recent years in the oil-rich central African nation. Campaigners say some Gabonese politicians use the black magic rituals to boost their chances of winning lucrative government posts.
Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.
Rumours of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.
Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.