South Africa: life sentences for a killing to obtain body parts for muthi — affirmed by the Supreme Court of Appeal
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Appellate history
2020-09-15
Appeal dismissed ([2020] ZASCA 102).
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Context only
Evidence status
Convicted
Authority role
none over the victim
Organization
No organization assigned
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NOT AN AUTHORITY-ABUSE CASE. Recorded as victim-directed ritual: the killing's purpose was to harvest material for muthi.
- Prosperity, divination, or curse-removal claim
- Violent occult ideology or sacrifice
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2018-12-01 · convictions and life sentences; appeal dismissed
Pietermaritzburg High Court (KwaZulu-Natal Division); Supreme Court of Appeal. Nino Mbatha and Lungisani Magubane were convicted in December 2018 before Judge Peter Olsen in the Pietermaritzburg High Court of the murder of Zanele Hlatshwayo, killed with the intent of obtaining body parts for muthi, and both sentenced to life imprisonment; a third co-accused was acquitted. The Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed Mbatha's appeal in Mbatha v S (928/20) [2020] ZASCA 102 on 15 September 2020, leaving the conviction and sentence standing.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- the victim killed with the intent of obtaining body parts for muthi
Cited record
Sources
- official court judgment appellate judgment Mbatha v S (928/20) [2020] ZASCA 102 (15 Sep. 2020).
The Supreme Court of Appeal judgment dismissing the appeal.
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- https://www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZASCA/2020/102.html Corpus classification: official-court-judgment; evidentiary role: appellate-judgment.
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