Earlier, the Traditional Healers Association of South Africa had also condemned the practise as one by rogue elements, in especially rural areas of the country, that was giving a bad name to genuine traditional healers.Khumalo, with the help of three other youths - Jimmy Stanley Thelejala, Mlungisi Ndlovu and Mbali Magwala - lured Indian-origin Desiree Murugan to a sports field in the sprawling Indian township of Chatsworth near Durban in 2014.Magwala got a lighter sentence because he only selected Murugan as the victim but did not participate in the actual stabbing.co.Sibonakaliso Mbili had promised one of the four co-accused, Falakhe Khumalo, to pay 2 million Rand (USD 153,000) for bringing head of an Indian or a white or a coloured woman, to be used in illegal witchcraft purposes, officials said.) belt lighter Johannesburg: A South African traditional healer has been sentenced to life for motivating the brutal beheading of an Indian-origin woman by promising four youths over USD 150,000.The four had killed and decapitated Murugan after stabbing her 192 times.. Indian-origin Desiree Murugan was decapitated after the accused stabbed her 192 times.Magwala got a lighter sentence because he only selected Murugan as the victim but did not participate in the actual stabbing.Khumalo, who earlier confessed to the murder, is serving a life sentence for killing the woman.

Thelejala and Ndlovu were awarded a 15-year prison sentence while Magwala will serve 12 years behind the bars.za.Welcoming the sentence, the community members said that it would send a strong mesغير مجاز مي باشدe to those who are duped into believing that human body parts can be used as traditional medicines.