Body Parts for Sale (2008)

An eye-opening and horrifying investigation into 'Muti Murder' in South Africa.
Despite the country's increasing modernisation, Unreported World reveals how hundreds of people, including children, have been killed for body parts destined for the booming practise of traditional medicine and talks to a 'healer' who claims he tortures and kills people for his trade.

Reporter Ramita Navai and producer James Brabazon begin their journey in the Eastern Cape. Eighteen people have been brutally murdered in a nine month period and, because the victims' body parts have been removed, the deaths have been blamed on Sangomas, traditional medicine healers.

Nearly everyone the team speaks to knows someone who has been affected, and though the police have arrested 14 men, locals are convinced the masterminds are still at large.


The team moves on to Limpopo province in the north of the country, where Muti murders are ravaging one of the country's poorest areas. Few people survive Muti attacks, but Navai finds one a woman who has. Nyelisani tells her that she played dead while her lips were being cut off to save her life after she had watched her boyfriend's mutilation and murder.

And she's not the only local victim. Other villagers claim that a mother and a son were ritually killed - the son was found hanged, his intestines had been ripped out - and that a pregnant woman was found with her intestines and breasts removed to supply traditional healers with ingredients.


South Africa is the continent's most developed state, but traditional medicine is still part of everyday life. Most of the people interviewed by the team say they visit Sangomas to treat illness or attract good fortune. One Sangoma, who says he does not use human body parts, tells Navai he treats more than 100 patients a week, half of whom have HIV or AIDS.

In the local capital, Thohoyandou, the police captain tells Unreported World that the trade in body parts is big business. More horrifying still is the revelation that children are often sought out, as their body parts are believed to be more powerful.


Back in Limpopo province, the team meets Fortune, a nine-year-old boy. His father tells Navai how his son was attacked and held down while his genitals were removed in a Muti assault. The assailant was caught the next day, most probably on his way to sell his Fortune's testicles on the booming body parts market in Johannesburg.

Unreported World talks to one policeman who says the belief in Muti is so strong that some Sangomas have even killed their own children to increase their powers. Navai is shown photos of a Sangoma who allegedly butchered his son, arranging the child's head, hands and feet in front of him.


Sangomas who use body parts rarely, if ever, speak about what they do. But the team manages to find one in a small village in Limpopo. He tells Navai that he has personally killed three people, taking the lips from one, the intestines from another and the genitals from the third. He explains that the victim needs to be alive when their bodies are mutilated and that if they are tortured in the process, their body parts become more powerful.

Confirming what Unreported World has previously heard, the Sangoma claims that if he needed things to go successfully, he would do it to his own children or relatives.


Navai and Brabazon leave the country having found compelling evidence that the number of ritual murder victims is growing. In South Africa, Muti killings and mutilations are now commonplace.

Traditional healers who use human body parts promise health and good fortune - but the truth is this perversion of traditional medicine brings many desperate South Africans only fear and misery.


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