South Africa’s Times Live newspaper has a horrific story about the conviction of a traditional healer for murdering an albino woman.
Bhekukufa Gumede promised to pay three men to kill 20-year-old Thandazile Mpunzi in August 2015, witnesses told the court, the newspaper reports.
The traditional healer wanted the body parts to make traditional medicine, it adds.
The court heard how Gumede instructed the three men to “put a silver coin into her mouth” and say some words which would make the victim powerless.
Gumede, 67, goes under the title of Archbishop as a leader of the New Star Church in Zion, which has 15 branches across the country.
The murder of albino people in some parts of Africa has been driven by the belief – advanced by some witchdoctors – that the body parts have properties that confer wealth and good luck.
Traditional healer convicted for murder of woman with albinism https://t.co/qecAEk3FIY pic.twitter.com/92HILpdq9a— Times LIVE (@TimesLIVE) February 21, 2017
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