A sangoma from Lesotho was caught in South Africa cooking the body parts of a murdered farmer in boiling water when he was arrested.
This transpired at the trial of Moeketsi Hopolong Mokoena, 34, in the Free State High Court on Monday, reported Volksblad. Mokoena stands accused of murdering Jan van Wyk, 82, from the farm Jakkalsfontein in 2009.
Court documents showed that some of his body parts were found in a pan in his farmhouse where Mokoena was busy cooking them. Mokoena allegedly started his murderous rampage on the evening of 30 March 2009, killing Basie Venter, 65, after arriving on the farm Biesiesvlei asking for food.
While Venter's wife was busy making him something to eat, she heard dogs barking and saw Mokoena hitting her husband with an iron rod. He then ran away.
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Van Wyk's badly mutilated body was found in the living room, and body parts in a pan in the kitchen.
A year after the murders, Mokoena was declared a patient of the president's (in need of psychiatric help). The State now argues that he has been successfully treated and can stand trial. On Monday, the judge postponed the trial to 22 April.
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