Gangs, Body Parts And
Witch Doctors:
Two men pinned down and
had eyes gouged out before
being killed in South Africa
Police said the murders of the two men were being investigated
along with the death of a 29-year-old male suspect (file picture)
- Horrified residents in Siqalo, Cape Town, heard the two
- men screaming in agony
- They found the victims covered in blood on Monday morning
- with eyes missing
- Comes weeks after girl and mother in Cape Town also had
- their eyes gouged out
Two men were pinned down and had they eyes gouged out before
being stoned to death in South Africa by a gang who sell body
parts to witch doctors.
Horrified residents in the township of Siqalo in Cape Town, heard
the men screaming in agony but were too terrified to come out of
their homes until the morning.
They found two victims covered in blood on Monday morning with
their eyes missing and surrounded by large stones.
It comes just weeks after a young girl and a young mother also
had their eyes gouged out. Locals fear the eyes of the four victims
may have been taken to be sold to witch doctors who use
them to create potions for customers.
Two men were pinned down and had they eyes gouged out
before being stoned to death in a township in Cape Town
(pictured), South Africa by a gang who sell body parts to witch doctors
Residents who called the police on Monday vowed to find the
killers and murder them in the same way and quickly tracked
down five heavily blood-stained men and interrogated them.
The gang allegedly confessed and were attacked with one beaten
to death and four escaping.
The homes that the alleged killers lived in were torn down by the
mob and angry locals vowed to kill them if the police don't catch
them first and gouge their eyes out in revenge.
A resident told The Daily Sun: 'We are sick and tired of cops who
don't do their jobs. When we found the suspects and beat one to
death they were quick then to rush to the scene.
'But where were they when it was dark and they were called to
help the men being attacked?'
Western Cape police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Andre Traut
said the murders of the two men were being investigated along
with the death of a 29-year-old male suspect.
Police said the murders of the two men were being investigated
along with the death of a 29-year-old male suspect (file picture)
In early June a local girl Minentle Lekhakha, aged five, was
found dead under a bridge in Cape Town after vanishing while
playing in the street with both her eyes gouged out.
Minentle's mother Tandisiwe Lekhakha, 23, was distraught when
the news was broken to her and the girl's father had the distressing
job of trying to identify his daughter.
The family fear she was raped before her eyes were gouged out
and taken by her attacker.
Just days before the body of mother-of-two Unathi Madotyeni, 33,
was found in Nyanga, Cape Town. She had been raped and
beaten to death and her eyes gouged out.
She had travelled to Cape Town to further her studies and vanished
after leaving a local bar.
Many locals believe body parts are sold to traditional healers known
as sangomas to make their traditional medicines known as muti which
the superstitious are in total awe of.
The sagomas believe that for there to be harmony between the living
and the dead, vital for a trouble free life, that the ancestors must be
shown respect through ritual and animal sacrifice.
The sangomas are called on to heal and it is believed that
through them the ancestors from the spirit world can give instruction
and advice to heal illness or social disharmony,
Gogo Kheswa, a sangoma from Nyanga, Cape Town, said she
makes her muti using herbs,
She told The Daily Sun: 'South African sangomas do not use body parts.
This is a new thing. It derives from foreign nationals who promise
business people they can make them rich.
'They say they use body part to make them rich and it is is making
it harder for us local sangomas because people do not trust and
they think we are all the same' she said.
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