Human hand and breast for sale29/06/2009
http://www.lowvelder.co.za/index.php...news&Itemid=98ACORNHOEK - A self-proclaimed Apostolic pastor was arrested on Saturday when he allegedly tried to sell a white woman’s breast and left hand to an inyanga.
A mortuary worker of Doves Funerals in Lydenburg was apprehended shortly after as the pastor identified him as the supplier.
The inyanga from Green Valley was horrified when the 48-year-old Mr Filemon Batulekile Baloyi, approached him at about 09:30 with the breast and hand, the nails of which had been neatly manicured. He kept the man occupied and in the meantime alerted the police.
Police officials arrived on the scene shortly after and arrested Baloyi. He said that he had obtained the body parts from Mr Ben
Mongadi (35), a casual worker at Doves Funerals in Lydenburg, who was also arrested later, on the same day.
He confessed it was not the first time he has received body parts from Mongadi. He told police that he had collected two hands, human body fat and fluid on previous occasions.
Mongadi added that he had given Baloyi human hair as well.
According to Capt Leonard Hlathi, spokesman for the police’s provincial organised crime unit, they had established that the suspects were targeting bodies that were to be cremated.
"They knew that the families would only check the face before the cremation," Hlathi explained. They allegedly supplied five local inyangas, whose names were currently being withheld.
The hand and breast were in a good condition, indicating that the body had recently been mutilated.
They are now being preserved in a state mortuary. Hlathi added that DNA tests would be performed to establish if they might be those of Ms Salomien Terblanche (32), who went missing in Nelspruit on April 15. Mongadi appeared in the Lydenburg Magi-strate’s Court and Baloyi in the Acornhoek Magistrate’s Court yesterday on charges of violation of a corpse and possession of human body parts.
Baloyi was denied bail and will appear in court again on July1.
Mr Danie van der Berg, communications officer of Doves Funerals, was not available for comment