The court was told that a traditional healer boasted about how some of the body parts of Gabisile Shabane, a girl with albinism, were stored in a big mayonnaise jar after her murder.
The court was told that a traditional healer boasted about how some of the body parts of Gabisile Shabane, a girl with albinism, were stored in a big mayonnaise jar after her murder.
A state witness has given shocking testimony in the trial of three men implicated in the 2018 murder of Gabisile Shabane, a girl with albinism who was abducted and murdered allegedly for her body parts.
Accused in case of murdered teen with albinism dies before trial Gabisile Shabane and her 15-month-old nephew were kidnapped and murdered in a muti-related killing in January 2018. Image: SAPS
One of the people implicated in the murder of Emalahleni (Witbank) teenager Gabisile Shabane and her cousin Nkosikhona Ngwenya has died before going on trial.
On what would have been the start of his trial with three co-accused, the high court sitting at the Middelburg magistrate’s court was told on Monday that Mfanisibili Muti Gamedze had died.
“There was a fourth accused who we were hoping and praying we could extradite from Swaziland. But his counsel has since indicated that he passed on. He is the fourth accused in the matter,” said prosecutor Ntsika Mpolweni.