Conviction Southern African muti Muti and body-part belief KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa · 2018

South Africa: life sentences for a killing to obtain body parts for muthi — affirmed by the Supreme Court of Appeal

Record class

Context only

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

none over the victim

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

NOT AN AUTHORITY-ABUSE CASE. Recorded as victim-directed ritual: the killing's purpose was to harvest material for muthi.

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.

Primary record

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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