Harare Man Arrested For Killing A 25 year Old Woman For Ritual Purposes
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has arrested a Harare based 20 year old man, Tawana Ngwenya suspected of killing a 25-year-old woman for rituals.
The deceased Ms Thabelo Mazolo's body was found sawn in half and part of her body mutilated and some body parts like breasts and palms missing and stashed into a drum filled with acid in the affluent Matsheumhlophe suburb in Bulawayo.
The suspected murderer Ngwenya, the son of the caretaker where the woman lived, was arrested in Harare where he is suspected to have fled to after committing the heinous crime.
Tawana reportedly had instructions on how he should kill the deceased Mazolo to get rich. Part of the instruction seen reads:
You must cut yourself and spill your blood onto a mirror. Gaze into the mirror and say out loud that you are selling your soul for riches. After that you must open the door for my boys to go out.
Tawana was staying at the guest house where Mazolo worked after Mazolo’s sister secured employment for him at a Bulawayo company.
Tawana’s father who is a caretaker at the guest house said he last saw Mazolo alive on 29 May
Tawana disappeared from home on Tuesday when he asked him if he knew Mazolo’s whereabouts and he switched off his phone.Â
Thabelo’s phone had stopped ringing. On Wednesday there was a strong smell of something rotting from the main house. I called the police. We opened the door with a spare key and found the body in a blue drum in the toilet.
It had been cut up and some of Thabelo’s clothes appeared to have been used to wipe up plenty of blood.
