muti

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 TLADI: He uses 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.

... 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 ...

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?

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.

MR STEWART: Mr Dlamini was some traditional type of muti prepared?

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.

... 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 ...

... (REC), largely co-ordinated by the SAP. Nico Basson, a former Military Intelligence communications expert who had been involved in the covert muti-million anti-SWAPO campaign before the elections in that country, had earlier made public details on a very similar campaign waged against ...

... 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 ...

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.