muti

CHAIRPERSON: No, what was used for the cleansing ceremony? I thought you were going to ask that question. Well, if you are not, permit me to do so. What did you use for the cleansing ceremony? What ingredients did you use for the muti that was to be used for your cleansing?

... were then dispatched to the deceased’s home to search for this firearm. They returned with a home-made firearm and a bag of herbs believed to be muti. Shabane now admitted to having obtained this firearm from Ngubo. Majola further testified that as a result finding these items it was decided ...

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 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.

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

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 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?

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.

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 ...

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.