Fears of 'muti killer' grip communities

Newspapers here are interesting (in a terrible way).

Libby (one of the ladies in our team) found an article today in the Weekend Arugus about a killer that they're trying to track down who has been trying to buy children. Apparently, he just drives up to women and offers to buy their kids. Among others, a social worker was approached yesterday while walking with a boy and girl.

But that's not the entire story...

The guy is interested in the childrens' body parts...particularly their fat and private parts for "muti."

We looked up "muti" in wikipedia and learned it's slang for medicine in Afrikaans (one of the official languages in South Africa). It also notes that, "Occasions of murder and mutilation associated with some traditional cultural practices, in South Africa are also termed muti killings...involve the murder of someone in order to excise body parts for incorporation as ingredients into medicine."

I'll post other stories later, but it's getting to the point where we don't know if we want to cry or throw up.