A mob yesterday stoned and tried to burn a 60-year-old naked woman. She died of her injuries.
Police are investigating a case of murder against residents of Cabazana village near Mount Ayliff in the Eastern Cape. The villagers reportedly attacked the woman in the belief that she was a witch.
Cabazana resident Zakahle Jakuja said he was woken by his dogs' barking early yesterday morning .
"I was shocked. There was a naked woman kneeling against my door," Jakuja said. "She was saying weird things - that she had fallen from her private jet. She asked me if I had received a phone call from my dead wife."
Jakuja said he was astounded because his wife had died in August after receiving a call on her cellphone from an unknown person.
Mantangase Mfenqa, the local headman, ascribed the death of Jakuja's wife to witchcraft.
Superintendent Vincent Ndabankulu said arrests would be made soon.
Mob stones, burns naked woman suspected of witchcraft
A mob yesterday stoned and tried to burn a 60-year-old naked woman. She died of her injuries.
Police are investigating a case of murder against residents of Cabazana village near Mount Ayliff in the Eastern Cape. The villagers reportedly attacked the woman in the belief that she was a witch.
Cabazana resident Zakahle Jakuja said he was woken by his dogs' barking early yesterday morning .
"I was shocked. There was a naked woman kneeling against my door," Jakuja said. "She was saying weird things - that she had fallen from her private jet. She asked me if I had received a phone call from my dead wife."
Jakuja said he was astounded because his wife had died in August after receiving a call on her cellphone from an unknown person.
Mantangase Mfenqa, the local headman, ascribed the death of Jakuja's wife to witchcraft.
Superintendent Vincent Ndabankulu said arrests would be made soon.