Daily Sun (January 19 2015) - IN AN empty room the police found hair, teeth and the bones of a leg on the floor of a young man's house.
He told the cops he was following instructions from his dead mother to dig up her body parts.
HE SAID SHE CAME TO HIM IN A DREAM AND TOLD HIM TO DIG UP HER GRAVE.
A witness who didn't want to be named told Daily Sun the 23-year-old man from Moeka Msholozi section, Temba, near Hammanskraal in Tshwane, showed no remorse.
"He said his mother told him to do it, so he did it," said the source.
It appears the young man and a 22-year-old friend went to Mmotle Cemetery in the middle of the night.
The young man started digging up the grave he said belonged to his mother, who was buried in 2010.
When he reached the coffin, he took out the hair, teeth, the bones of a leg and a hand and stored the parts in a room in his house.
The man was arrested on Thursday afternoon after his 22-year-old friend told the police about the body parts he had taken from the grave.
When police went to the graveyard they discovered a disturbed grave. The police then went to his house and found the body parts.
The source said the man told the police the parts were going to be used to heal people.
He said the community believe his actions might have something to do with Satanism. It is alleged that the man had already sold the bones from his mother's hand and he was planning to do the same with the other body parts.
The police also found a red container with bone ash in it.
"The suspect said the ashes in the container were those of his grandmother who died in 2011," said the source.
Police spokesman Constable Herman Moremi confirmed that a 23-year-old suspect was arrested on Thursday after his friend called the police and told them about the body parts.
He confirmed the find in the empty room.
"It is believed that this is not the first time the suspect has dug up a grave," said Moremi.
He said the body parts were taken to a forensic laboratory for examination.
"Police are in a process of obtaining legal documents to exhume the body in order to determine whether the grave belonged to his late mother," said Moremi.
The suspect will appear in the Moretele Magistrates Court on charges of violating a grave today.
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