An entire village in shock from cannibalism, people are eating (Photo)

Anxiety and fear have swept across the village of Shayamiya in the province of KwaZulu-Natal of South Africa after the discovery of a disabled body.

The family of Zanele Hlatschwayo, 25, who had disappeared since July, believes that she was the victim of a group of cannibals. So far, five of them have been arrested.

The victim's decomposing body was found after a man claiming to be a popular physician surrendered to the police and confessed that he was tired of eating human flesh.

Police officials had initially rejected his statement, according to reports.

Only after he showed them a bloody hand and a leg as evidence was he arrested in the flagganza.

The popular doctor led the police to his rented house, in which effective ones found eight human ears in a cooking pot.

It is believed that the ears would be served as food to his clients, who were told that their consumption would have magical benefits, money, power and protection.

Several other body parts were found in a suitcase.

Mrs. Hlatshayo's bloody and torn clothes were found among human remains in the popular doctor's home. They were identified by her family.

However, police are still waiting for the results of DNA testing to confirm whether the bones belong to the mother of a two-year-old boy.

Mrs. Hlatschwayo's family must still wait to bury him.

The “is an extremely painful death”, says her older sister Nozipho Ntelele, as she wipes her tears.

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The popular doctor lived in a rented cabin in Rensburgdrift near Escort.

He was called “Mkhojvu”, which in the area language means “corruption or corruption”.

The cabin in which he lived had been rented by Filani Magubane, whose brother was also arrested as an accomplice to the popular doctor.

He said one of his tenants had complained about the smell of rotten meat coming from the new neighbor.

“Mkhojovu entered the house only two months ago I had no idea he was carrying human remains here, because I don't live in the same yard,” said Mr. Magubane.

The Magubane believes that his brother, along with three other youths, has been seduced by the traditional healer by the promise of work.

It is thought that he had sent young people to dig pits in the middle of the night so that he could do great magic, known as <x0muti”.

Give me Majola, a local politician, called a community meeting shortly after the cannibalism suspects appeared in court last week.

The majority of residents were shocked by this and now living in fear”, but Mr. Majola says that there are some who were not surprised.

Some prove they have consulted the popular doctor and knowingly eaten human meat”, he said.

But what angered most of us here is how many greedy people have become our”, saying that Mkhojovu's clients were cattle thieves, who had suggested they could become unbeatable, even bulletproof, so the police couldn't shoot.

Phepsile Maseko, from the popular medical organization in South Africa, condemned cannibalism practices.

She said “Mkhojovu” was a false healer who wanted to enrich and warped sacred practices.

“Ritual killings and the use of human tissue are not part of traditional healing... this angers us as traditional healers because we must constantly protect our honest work”, Maseko said.

The five men, who were indicted in court Monday, amid public protests outside the courtroom, abandoned the request for their parole and will be submitted to the court in late September.

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