A KwaZulu-Natal traditional healer who conspired to murder a woman with albinism has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the Mtubatuba High Court. Gumede's co-accused Mandla Mabuzo and Lindokuhle Khumalo pleaded guilty to the murder in September 2015 and were each sentenced to 20 years in prison. Prior to the murder, Gumede told his co-accused that he needed the body of an female with albinism. He said that "muthi", mixed with the body parts of a person with albinism, would make them rich. "They met the following day and dismembered the body, taking away certain body parts.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 23, 2017 15:22 UTC