Daily Sun (October 3 2014) - WHEN HE left the house he locked the door and gave the family a stern warning.
Don't open this door, no matter what!
BUT THREE MONTHS LATER, THE STINK WAS EVEN STRONGER THAN THEIR FEAR.
And it didn't just smell bad.
Makhosi Mazibuko (55), who lives in the house in Zola, Soweto said there were also worms coming from under the door and flies were buzzing about in the room.
The smell became so bad they could no longer eat their food!
Makhosi said she, her two sons and her nephew tried to block the door with newspapers but the flies and worms still came out.
Daily Sun was there when they finally broke open the door . . . and along with the smell came a sight the family would remember for the rest of their lives.
On the floor lay the wrinkled, rotting intestines of a goat and a cow. There were flies and worms everywhere.
Makhosi said a relative held a ceremony on 5 July.
"He said it was a cleansing because our older brother had died a few months before," she said.
"After the ceremony the relative locked his bedroom door and took the key."
She said her relative had been trying to kick her and her children out of the house since their parents died.
Makhosi described their three months of hell in the stinking house.
Makhosi said when they called him to come and open the door he said he would not come until the stomach had burst.
"We did not understand what he meant but we were too scared to open the door because we were afraid for our lives," she said.
Lindiwe Mazibuko (21), Makhosi's daughter said she had constant back and stomach pains and suffered from a permanent headache.
The other children were also sick all the time.
Lindiwe said a traditional healer told her a man close to the family was making her and her brothers ill.
The People's Paper and officers from the Jabulani Police Station were there when Makhosi and her nephew Dumisani Mazibuko (31) finally broke open the door.
When Daily Sun called the relative he said that he was unable to go home and open the room as he was sick.
"I was going to open the door as soon as I felt better," he said.
Ntsimb'edlezinye Ngema said the man was using them to gain evil powers.
He said he was sent by an evil sangoma to pretend to be hosting a traditional ceremony while he was actually hosting a ceremony for evil spirits.
"They are sick with similar diseases because they are being entered by tokoloshes that are making them sick," said Ntsimb'edlezinye.
"He is using them to make himself wealthy."
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