{"id":4665,"date":"2013-05-29T06:34:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T06:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4665"},"modified":"2013-05-29T06:34:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T06:34:42","slug":"butchered-for-muti-while-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4665","title":{"rendered":"Butchered for muti while still alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mutiseller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4666\" title=\"mutiseller\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mutiseller-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mutiseller-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mutiseller.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A murder trial began in a Nelspruit court this week that resembles the script of a horror movie. Four men appeared in the Nelspruit Circuit High Court for the muti murder of Mr Clarance Brown (25) on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Family and community members wore T-shirts branded with Brown&#8217;s photo to court. Businessman Mr Floyd Mokoena (63), his son Mr Sydney Toto Mokoena (38) and two of Sydney&#8217;s friends, Mr Justice Ndubane (33) and Mr Simon Nkosi (37) face charges of murder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Brown&#8217; s body was exhumed from his grave in Oakley Trust near Bushbuckridge in 2008, three weeks after the police had received a tip-off that he was murdered for muti purposes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two of the accused were related to the deceased.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Floyd allegedly asked his son to help him hunt down a relative so they could remove his body parts and use them to strengthen his businesses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sydney apparently persuaded his two friends to ambush his cousin, Brown, on the night of February 23, 2008, after returning from a night out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mpumalanga police spokes-man Col Leonard Hlathi said the accused allegedly offered Brown a lift home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;But they apparently attacked him on the way by cutting off his right testicle, removing his brain and certain bones from his body while he was still alive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said they then supposedly ran over Brown with a Venture and left him to die on the road where he bled profusely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This was meant to make it look like he had been a victim of a hit-and-run accident but their dirty tricks backfired nearly six months after the victim&#8217;s funeral hence we were forced to exhume the body,&#8221; Hlathi said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trial continues this week. &#8211; looklocal.co.za<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A murder trial began in a Nelspruit court this week that resembles the script of a horror movie. Four men appeared in the Nelspruit Circuit High Court for the muti murder of Mr Clarance Brown (25) on Monday. Family and community members wore T-shirts branded with Brown&#8217;s photo to court. Businessman Mr Floyd Mokoena (63), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=4665\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Butchered for muti while still alive&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[2841,880,2842,2844,2843],"class_list":["post-4665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-african-medicine","tag-muti","tag-muti-killings","tag-muti-murders","tag-witchcraft"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/mutiseller.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4668,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4665\/revisions\/4668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}