FACTNet Alert: Cultic ritual child murders: England + South Africa
2nd April 2002

The following is a gruesome document. Do not read it if you are sensitive to issues relating to death, mutilation, child abuse and cultic behaviour. This document is a FACTNet alert and a call to arms.

Tuesday, 2 April, 2002, 10:00 GMT 11:00 UK 
'I was forced to kill my baby'

Last September a boy's torso was found in the Thames. Police now believe it could have been a "muti" killing, a human sacrifice practiced in southern Africa. Here, as seen in a BBC Two documentary, a mother reflects how she was forced to help kill her own child. 

Helen Madide, of the Thohoyandou area in South Africa, was 18-years-old when she became a social pariah. 

She was the mother of a toddler named Fulufhuwani and was separated from his father, Naledzani Mabuda, a traditional healer known as a sangoma...

While most of the 70,000 sangomas in South Africa provide herbal remedies for minor ailments, some crave more potent ingredients to practice muti, the Zulu word for medicine. 

"He began to tell me stories. His ancestors said that he must kill me and the child so that he can be rich," Helen told Nobody's Child, a BBC documentary on the investigation into the London boy's death. 

"He showed me the path and forced me to go along that path. He was pushing me and demanding me to go whether I like it or not. He said he was going to kill the baby first while I see the baby, then secondly he will kill me." 

Although Helen tried to escape, Mabuda caught her and forced her to hold Fulufhuwani's legs while he cut the child's throat. 

"When the child was dead, he started to cut all those pieces, the hands, the legs and even the sex organs," Helen says. 

Limbs from children, primarily the sexual organs, are said to be the most potent. These are sometimes taken from live victims because their screams are thought to enhance the power of the medicines...

Mabuda then locked Helen up with the child's body. But his relatives, fearing for his wife and child, called the police...

Conservative estimates are that at least 300 people have been murdered for their body parts in the past decade in South Africa. 

And Dr Anthony Minnar, of the Institute for Human Rights and Criminal Justice in South Africa, fears the toll could be much higher. 

"We have children going missing every week from our townships," he says. "The assumption is that those missing children are being put into prostitution and also that they are being used for muti murder."...

But the police have found it difficult to investigate because in such cases, no-one is prepared to come forward. 

Similarly in London, little progress has been made on identifying the torso of the boy which was found in the Thames last September - or his killers. Whether or not he was indeed the UK's first recorded victim of a muti killing, the Metropolitan Police are convinced it was ritualistic. 

Among the South African experts advising them is Colonel Jonker, who has retired from that country's Occult Crime Unit. 

He says: "If there's a guy operating in London, he's going to need body parts again." 

.....end of Fair Use educational extract . To Read the full article, go to http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1899000/1899609.stm

To read more about Samngomas and muti medicine:

http://www.factnet.org/cults/Sangoma/index.html

To voice your opinion:
South African : The Presidency Ministry : Ms Nthabiseng Rantau : nthabiseng@po.gov.za
South African : Tourism Ministry : Head of Ministerial Services : Mr Onkgopotse JJ Tabane : tabane@iafrica.com
South African : Social Development Ministry : Media Liaison Officer : Ms Mbulelo Musi : mbulelo@welspta.pwv.gov.za 
South African : Justice & Constitutional Development Ministry : Media Liaison Officer : Mr Paul Setsetse : psetsetse@justice.gov.za 
South African : Safety and Security Ministry : Media Liaison Officer : Mr Andre Martin : martina@saps.org.za 

Major South African Newspapers:
suntimes@sundaytimes.co.za (Sunday Times)
letters@iol.co.za (Independent Online)
letters@mg.co.za (Mail + Guardian)

IOHO
Yours Respectfully,
FACTNet Staff
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