Thabang Malakoane

Thabang Malakoane (2000 - 2003)

Brief overview:

Thabang (3), disappeared as his mother napped in their shack at a squatter camp south of Johannesburg. When his body was found, in a garbage bag under a thin layer of dirt, the left hand and genitals had been severed. The brain, heart and other vital organs were gone.

What remains is the rage of neighbors convinced that the healer and another man carried out an unspeakable crime, and the deep-rooted superstitions that the police suspect prevent witnesses from talking.

People in the dense camp openly accuse the healer and a second man of an ancient and gruesome practice: murder so that human body parts can be taken for what is known as muti -- the term is derived from the Zulu word for medicine.

Brief Biography:

• Other Victims/Family
• Funeral/Memorial
• The Street/Suburb
• The Region (Land disputes, other incidents etc.)

Attack Details:

• Date and time of attack
• Weapons
• Items Stolen
• Investigative officer/SAPS Case No:
• Torture, Gratuitous violence
• Indications of Hate Crime? Threats etc.

Perpetrator details:

• Number and Descriptions
• Arrests
• Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s
• Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
• Trial/Conviction

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Links to Media articles:

• https://archive.ph/IyzFW