Daily Sun (October 22 2014) - ON MONDAY the young woman was caught with muthi to make her fellow workers sick. And when they questioned her she confessed - and told them about her secret reign of evil.
IT APPEARS SPRINKLING MUTHI WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF HER MANY DESPERATE DEEDS
Sitting in the back of the cop van holding plastic bags filled with muthi in her hands, the 28-year-old woman from Tshepisong, west of Joburg confessed to trying to sleep with her boss' husband.
"At night, I would put muthi in my hand and blow on it and call his name," she said.
"I would call for him to leave his wife and come to me."
She said she also used muthi to try and lure her landlord's husband into her bed.
Because she wanted to be in charge of her boss' business, she used muthi to make them quit. "I would get to work early and sprinkle muthi on the gate so they would start feeling sick and their feet would swell," she said.
The woman said she got the muthi from a sangoma from KwaZulu-Natal.
"The sangoma said all my desires would come true," said the woman from the back of the cop van.
"I always dreamed of living in a double-storey house with my boss' husband and being the madam of the house," she said.
But her muthi failed her when she was caught sprinkling muthi at work.
Her boss, Lindiwe Sibisi (39), who owns a takeaway shop in Tshepisong, told Daily Sun they suspected the woman was using muthi on the staff and her husband, whose name Lindiwe didn't want to reveal.
"We had no proof and we couldn't accuse her, but then I got a call from a worker who told me what she had done," said Lindiwe.
Lindiwe said she took the woman in as a worker to help her. "She had nothing. Her mother kicked her out because she was sleeping with her mother's boyfriend," claimed Lindiwe.
"I can't believe she wanted to kill me but she told me she put dukanezwe muthi in my food so I would disappear and she could take my husband."
A co-worker who didn't want to be named said the woman cooked for them. "But she wouldn't eat," said the worker..
Police came to rescue the woman from the angry community, who wanted the police to let her out of the van so they could teach her a lesson. "Please don't let me out, they are going to kill me," she pleaded.
Cop spokesman Captain Solomon Sibiya said the woman was being kept in the holding cells for her own safety. They can't open a case because she hasn't been accused of a crime.
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