Posted on 08/22/2017 8:18:11 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Pietermaritzburg - A community meeting following the arrest of four Estcourt men for allegedly killing a person and eating human flesh saw hundreds of residents allegedly confess to having eaten human body parts procured from one of the accused.
The four men, Nino Mbatha (32), Sthembiso Sithole (31), Lindokuhle Masondo (32) and Lungisani Magubane (30), appeared in the Estcourt Magistrate’s Court on Monday on charges of murder and conspiracy.
This after one of the four men allegedly walked into the Estcourt police station on Friday, holding human body parts and confessed to being “tired of eating human flesh”. When he was questioned, he produced part of a human leg and a hand. Further investigation led police to a house in the Rensburgdrift area in Estcourt where they were met with a foul smell, and more human remains were found.
KwaZulu-Natal police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbhele said on Friday that one of the accused, also an nyanga (traditional healer), was arrested in Amangwe area where more body parts were found.
It has been alleged that the men raped, killed and cut up the body of a woman, which they then consumed.
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Hundreds of outraged Estcourt locals gathered outside the magistrate’s court on Monday morning, armed with cameras and cellphones in the hopes of catching a glimpse of the four men.
With police guarding the entrance to the court, residents were warned to stay back as the men were loaded into a police van after their court appearance and taken into police custody until their formal bail application on August 28.
Later, ward councillor Mthembeni Majola, who held a meeting at the Esigodlweni community hall on Monday morning, said that around 300 residents had confessed to visiting Mbatha, an nyanga, and knowingly eating human flesh that he gave to them.
He said that there were around 700 people at the meeting where about 300 residents confessed to allegedly knowing Mbatha had human flesh and allegedly confessed to eating it.
He said a community member, who had been very close to Mbatha, had had a falling out with the nyanga.
Majola alleged that the matter was not just limited to Estcourt and that the nyanga had links across the Uthukela area.
Majola alleged that Mbatha had been a practising nyanga in Ladysmith before he fled to Rensburgdrift earlier this year as the Ladysmith community had allegedly attacked and killed another nyanga in the area, however, this could not be confirmed.
“We don’t know what to do or who to trust,” said Majola.
'People we know and live with have now confessed to eating this woman'
“This has happened within our community. Families, people we know and live with have now confessed to eating this woman,” he said.
He added that community members had also allegedly confessed to digging up graves under Mbatha’s orders, and giving Mbatha the bones.
Majola said the community had said at the meeting that the nyanga had told them that digging up the graves would make them strong and protect them from harm and that bringing him the bones would bring them wealth in the future.
Colonel Mbhele said that the provincial Occult-Related Crime Unit was investigating the matter.
She said police could not comment further on the matter, due to the sensitivity of the case.
“Self determination.” Wasn’t that the buzzword around ending apartheid?
They are not! Some countries have more vegetarianism and a lot more abortions.
liberal heads explode.
Little known fact that the Obama administration made it nearly impossible for white South Africans to emigrate here, in spite of the fact that most of them were highly educated, some with engineering degrees.
The primary reason for the numerous requests to emigrate was listed as crime.
African cannibalism was (is?) not rare, however uncomfortable that may make westerners.
From Wikipedia:
Cannibalism was widespread in the past among humans in many parts of the world, continuing into the 19th century in some isolated South Pacific cultures, and to the present day in parts of tropical Africa.
Damned! Did the communist ANC-led government ban McDonalds’ in South Africa? having them would have saved lives.
See, I told you that communism kills. The proof is in the eating.
{Sorry for that line} NOT!
As an Afrikaner ex-pat South African I can tell you a little about us. Mottos: n boer maak n plan (A farmer makes a plan {finds a solution}) Kannie doot (Cant die) They are like the people from the 50’s. They would be a huge asset to the US economy. The problem is this. Most of the good ones have gotten the hell out of dodge. The ones left for the most part are libs. Many of the doctors emigrated to Houston. Many especially farmers emigrated to OZ. A lot of people went to NZ. A lot came to the US. We are scattered in the wind. A diaspora.
Cannibalism was also practiced by Indian tribes in the Hudson River valley; we’re supposed to pretend noble savages lived in harmony until whitey came and screwed it up.
Yes, South Africa is going backward, but even America has its stories of crazed murders who kill and eat their victims - Jeffrey Dahmer, etc....
How is this simply not a case of that? Or is there more too it?
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“Ewww, with a gammy leg?”
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