Why black Africans are considered savages.

[Amadoda]

'Body parts for sale in Jo'burg city centre'

May 08 2002 at 12:01AM

By Themba wa Sepotokele


Human body parts may be for sale on the streets in Johannesburg's city centre, according to a hard-hitting documentary.

The award-winning SABC3 programme Special Assignment on Tuesday night flighted a gruesome and chilling insert about corrupt inyangas who claimed to be selling human organs in Johannesburg, as well as a Medunsa staff member who allegedly sold investigators two human hands for R4 000.

A two-month investigation exposed networks trafficking in human limbs, extremities and organs - in contravention of the Human Tissues Act - and selling their grisly wares to people desperate for cures for illness and financial good luck.

A bogus and corrupt inyanga operating from under a bridge in Eloff Street Extension was exposed selling what were believed to be human organs. The inyanga had earlier sold the team human bones for R40 and promised to get them human flesh in a couple of days.

Bones were taken for forensic testing
The bones were taken for forensic testing and it was found they were those of a cow.

The man later introduced Special Assignment to a middleman at the Faraday taxi rank, who showed and agreed to sell to the team a human eye and brain for R1 800.

Special Assignment confronted the man, and it was not established whether the brain and eye were human.

Also exposed was Levi Masebe, who works at a mortuary at Medunsa in North West province, after he sold journalists two human right hands for R4 000. Masebe was filmed by a spy camera displaying the hands to the "buyers" and accepting and counting money.

Medunsa authorities, upon hearing of the alleged deal, immediately had Masebe arrested.

The team also probed the disappearance of a four-year-old girl in Malala, Venda, who vanished in 2000. Residents found a skeleton thought to be hers - but without feet or hands - and the bones were sent for tests.

Two years later it was found that the bones were indeed hers, but the tests could not reveal how she died.

The programme also exposed the death of a baby girl by her father, a self-appointed healer, who killed her in front of her mother, who said: "He took us to a secluded spot... where he beheaded her and chopped (off) her limbs and removed her intestines and then wrapped them in a plastic bag. He poured her blood into a calabash and carried them all home."

[Amadoda]

Story can be found at:

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click...24290&set_id=1

[Tiger32]

So is this your viewpoint of Africans?

[mar-T]

that is a pretty twisted story. However what this shows is that money will make you do anything if you don't have any.

[Amadoda]

Very true MarT, but what makes me sick in the gut is that there's a market it for it, and we all know who that market is.

Tiger, please don't shoot the messanger.

[mar-T]

diffrent strokes for diffrent folks...... what might seem sick in your culture could be perfectly normal in another..... I don't personally think the sale of body parts (and "couterfeit" body parts) is a thought that makes me want to go out for a five course meal!

[Amadoda]

Thursday, 16 May, 2002, 15:54 GMT 16:54 UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/wor...00/1991406.stm

SA police nab 'head' man

Police in South Africa have arrested a man and seized a human head they say he was trying to sell for use in traditional medicine.
West Rand police say the head was that of a 52-year-old man whose headless corpse was discovered on Monday at his home in Krugersdorp, a town west of Johannesburg.

He had attempted to sell the head for 10,000 rand ($980)

The suspect has been charged with murder and will appear in court on Friday.

He was arrested at an abattoir in Krugersdorp during a sting operation on Wednesday, after police received information regarding a potential seller of body parts.

There is a thriving market for human body parts in many African countries, where they are used in traditional medicine.

This has led to a spate of so-called "Muti murders".

"Muti" is the Zulu word for medicine.

Stabbed

"A trap was set whereby a 23-year-old man was arrested. He had attempted to sell the head for 10,000 rand ($980) for muti purposes," Police Captain Paula Nothnagel said.

Mandela is involved in the fight against 'Muti murders'

Police say they believe the man stabbed his victim several times before decapitating him.

The head appears to have been cut off with a knife.

Last month, former South African President Nelson Mandela joined British detectives in a global appeal for help in solving the murder of a young boy whose torso was found in London's River Thames last year.