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A cannibal restaurant was uncovered after police found eight severed human ears in a cooking pot.
The chilling network of human flesh-eaters was exposed after the disappearance of young mother Zanele Hlatshwayo, 25, in South Africa in 2007.
Nino Mbatha, aged 33, a self-styled traditional healer, handed himself in at a police station carrying a bag of body parts and confessed to being ‘tired of eating human flesh’.
Detectives at first did not believe the healer – known as ‘Mkhonyovu’, meaning ‘the corrupt one’ in the Zulu language – until he pulled a severed leg out of his bag.
He then led officers to his rented home in the town of Estcourt, where officers found eight human ears in a cooking pot, as well as other body parts in a suitcase.
The healer confessed that he served body parts to customers after telling them the food was magic and would lead to success in life.
Mbatha and his accomplice Lungisani Magubane, 32, were jailed for life for Ms Hlatshwayo’s murder. Mbatha’s confession also led to the arrests of five other men.