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Original Post Date: 2008-12-15 Time: 07:00:01 Posted By: Jan
By Bongani Fuzile
Police have made a major breakthrough in the so-called Kei Ripper muti killings, which have been terrorising residents in the Butterworth and Dutywa areas for the past two months.
Spokesperson Director Marinda Mills on Sunday said a police task team had arrested three suspects on Friday in connection with the spate of murders in which victims’ bodyparts were “harvested”.
“This is the beginning of what we can call a breakthrough in the investigation into the killings in the area,” she confirmed.
“Two suspects have confessed to the killing of Khanyisa Mama, whose body was found dumped at Tutura farm. They have been charged,” Mills said.
Mama’s body was found in a forest near Tutura outside Butterworth on October 24. His eyes, heart and genitals were missing.
Police swooped on the men’s homes in an early morning raid on Friday after following up several leads combined with information from witnesses and the public.
One of the suspects was a traditional healer and police had confiscated medicines which would be sent for forensic testing, Mills said.
The other suspect is a Swazi citizen.
It is believed that one of the suspects was recruiting community members to help to kill people and harvest their body parts at the time of his arrest.
“The two will appear in the Centane Magistrate’s court today (Monday). The third suspect was being interrogated by the task team on Sunday for his alleged involvement in these murders,” Mills said.
At a meeting on Sunday, villagers were visibly angry, calling for the suspects’ families to leave the Tutura area.
“My grandchild, my own blood, was recruited by these sangomas to kill people for body parts.
“These people must leave this village now, not tomorrow,” said one upset villager.
Other villagers – mainly women – who attended the meeting applauded when the decision was taken for the family to be removed.
But when speaking to the Daily Dispatch, the father of one suspect said he had never told his child to kill people.
“The allegations against my child will be proved by the court.
“I beg these villagers not to evict me from the village. I have nowhere to go,” he said.
Villagers said they were also upset after learning that one suspect earlier last week killed two dogs and a black goat for a sangoma’s “cleansing ceremony”.
“To kill dogs and a black goat is bad luck to our village. We can’t stand that. These people must go,” one villager said.
Police, however, said at this stage they did not link the arrests to the murder of nine-year-old Vika Nqwiliso, believed to be the first victim in the area.
Nqwiliso was butchered in front of three of his friends by a man while they were looking for wild fruit at Mcucuzo village, also outside Butterworth on October 12.
A week later, Mama’s body was found dumped in a forest at Tutura farm with missing body parts.
A few weeks later the body of Nobijolo Dulini and that of an unidentified middle-aged man were found in Dutywa , both with missing facial and body parts.
A number of attacks in which victims survived after being asked to “give” body parts have also been reported.
Three people, Macebo Langeni, Mvuleli Mdolo and Veleka Mkiva – the sister of Nelson Mandela’s praise singer Zolani Mkiva – survived to tell their stories of the so-called Kei Ripper after they were attacked.
Read the full story on the Daily Dispatch Online
Source: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=iol1229322804771D213