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Machete-wielding gangs in South Africa are mutilating young people to provide body parts for the traditional medicine market, an investigation has found. The practice has brought terror to parts of South Africa, where it is estimated that at least 300 people are killed each year for the medicine, known as muti. One victim was Fortune Khumalo, a boy of nine, who was attacked as he relieved himself in bushes.

LOBAMBA – Home Affairs minister Prince Sobandla is spitting fire following what he claims are serious allegations to the effect that he and the Director of Sports and Culture Maswazi Shongwe bewitch the national team, Sihlangu. Speaking at a press conference held yesterday at the Somhlolo National Stadium where he had gone to inspect the stadium ahead of Sunday’s Castle Cup quarterfinal against Madagascar, an obviously angry Prince Sobandla attributed the allegation to the Football Association officials. He said so serious is the matter that the FA executive had to hire a private coach, CI Transport (Colisani Inhliziyo) to take...

21 people arrested in England over human sacrifice of African boy Focus: Muti - The Story of AdamThe arrest of 21 people in connection with the discovery of a child's mutilated body in the Thames points to a network of people traffickers and an underworld of abuse and domestic slavery. Paul Vallely, who has followed the case in the two years since the torso of the young African boy was found, says the evidence leads to the bloody ritual of muti, where the body parts of children are sacrificed in pursuit of spiritual power 03 August 2003 It was the...