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Terror after muti murders
  March 16 2008 at 10:01AM
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By Chris MakhayeFear this week gripped Bizana and Port Edward - where at leasteight women and a man have been killed in the past threemonths for muti.The women were hit on the head with a hammer, raped and hadtheir genitalia removed while they were still alive.Despite three arrests made this week, many residents will notreturn home, fearful that the muti kingpin is still out there, waitingto strike. They sleep at work or in the fields.Such is the terror in the community thatimpromptu patrols have beenorganised, and oneman suspected ofinvolvement has been lynched, his bodydumped in sugar cane fields.While police put the number of dead atnine, the community believes the figureis closer to 18.
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 When the Sunday Tribune visited the area this week, we metThembi (not her real name), 13, who cried uncontrollably as shereceived counselling for the first time since a gruesomediscovery in her home in Izikhuba district. Her whole family waswiped out.Thembi was one of more than two dozen women who attended acounselling session at Mzamba's Ebenezer Hall this week.She said she had been sent by her father to a house in aneighbouring location and had to stay the night there because itwas late.Last Saturday morningshe camebackhome to find her fatherand two older sisters had been killedin their beds.Her father, Madodebhunga Yalo, hadbeen hit with a hammer. A grinder hadbeen used to cut his skull open and his brains had beenremoved.Her two sisters, Nandipha, 21, and Nobuhle, 20, had also beenhit on the head with a hammer and a sharp instrument had beenused to remove their genitals from their bodies.The three family members will be buried next Saturday.They are not the only victims. At least six other women have beenkilled in a similar fashion in less than three months.It is believed body parts are sold to traditional medicinepractitioners at the Bizana market to make strong muti.Two men have appeared in the Bizana magistrate's court.
'In my 76 years,I have neverseen anything
like I
discovered thatmorning''What thesethugs did isvery painful'
 
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Sign upThey are 19-year-old Vusi Sixikixa, a Grade 12 pupil at NombusoSecondary, near Port Edward, and 24-year-old SonwabileQhosha of Mzamba.A 30-year-old man is to appear in court on Tuesday alongsidethem, after being arrested in Jeffreys Bay.Police confirm they are questioning suspects and the names oftwo sangomas are being repeatedly mentioned.On Thursday in Izikhuba district, hundreds of women and menattended a meeting to vent their anger. It was resolved that youngmen would patrol the neighbourhood and deal with suspiciousstrangers.Woman workers at the local Wild Coast Sun casino, who hadtwo colleagues killed by muti murder syndicates, are nowresorting to sleeping on benches outside the casino resort forfear of travelling home after their night shifts.The recent arrests follow the deployment of a high-level taskteam of top detectives from organised crime units in Pretoria,KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.Police believe the killings started in October last year, when a15-year-old schoolgirl's body was discovered on the R61 road inMzamba location. She had been raped, hit with a hammer andhad her private parts removed.Local resident Mary Makhawula believes the murderinvestigation would not have borne results if the task team hadnot arrived to help the Mzamba police.On January 8 her granddaughter, Nozibele Ngeleka, 25, great-grandchild Yamkela, 11, and a friend, LungiswaTshutsha, 20,were attacked while they were sleeping.Nozibele died after having been hit with a hammer, raped andher genital area removed.Lungiswa was attacked in a similar fashion and died in hospitaltwo weeks later. Yamkela was hit with a hammer and raped, butshe survived and spent about six weeks recovering in hospital.Nozibele's 3-year-old son was also in the room. The attackersordered him to cover his face during the attack. He was found inthe morning, his clothes full of blood."In my 76 years, I have never seen anything like I discovered thatmorning," Makhawula said. "What these thugs did is very painful.What is even worse is that the accused are local boys," she said.One Wild Coast Sun worker, who asked not to be named, saidwomen at the casino were afraid. "Before, we used to go homeafter our night shift. But since the death of our colleagues manyof us sleep on benches outside the casino, in the staff canteenor in the laundry, and go home in the morning," she said.Nobantu Mjongeni, who lives in Mzamba and works at a bananafarm near Port Edward, said, "I have not been home now for twoweeks. I am scared because these criminals not only attack onthe road, but come into homes to kill."Local community leader Vuyani Cele said it appeared that thekillers typically struck their victims, raped them while they werestill dazed and remove the body parts while they were still alive."We started patrols this week because we want to put an end tothese killings. Police tell us about 65 members of thesesyndicates operate in our community," Cele said.Such is the fear that on Monday night heavily-armed communitymembers descended on the house of Bongani "Vokoza" Sonjica,who was suspected of being the muti kingpin. He was abductedI'm a 29 year old woman looking to meetmen between the ages of 30 and 37.
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