The Daveyton Muti Murders Finale
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NOTE: Listener’s discretion is strongly advised. “That’s how cruel people are,” says Ndeni Mntungwa, surveying the littered wetland of Yende Park in central Daveyton, where he found his son Jabulani’s mutilated body nine years ago. And then, about a year after this murder, the body of Wandile Jasop was found as well. Both were killed for their private parts in the same dark park, just metres from each other, and nearly one year apart. Yet to this day, not a single person is convicted for these heinous crimes. No witnesses. No DNA evidence. No accepted admissions. Only a state patient. An acquittal. And the spectre known as ‘Pinto’, a shadowy businessman, looms large over this dark chapter. Reported in pockets over six years by News24 broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer, with crucial 2025 contributions by video journalists Yolanda Mdzeke and Rosetta Msimango, this limited series draws on exclusive family testimony, on-record whistleblower accounts, National Prosecuting Authority case details, official police correspondence, and key security sources to piece together what happened, and what didn’t, in this intriguing, dark puzzle.News24’s Sharlene Rood has also crafted timelines and character cards for you to follow while you listen. The complete series is out now on all of your favourite streaming platforms: YouTube, Spotify, IONO, and Apple. Comment below and send a voice note to broadcast journalist Graeme Raubenheimer: 072 562 3179. This podcast utilises licensed Epidemic Sound tracks and Creative Commons audio, with special thanks to Shane Ivers for Zebra Township (via Silverman Sound Studios), ScovinieBeatz for various sampled tracks via Pixabay, and limited fair-use audio clips pulled from the archived productions Bopha! and YizoYizo. This series has been rigorously quality-checked by News24's editors.
Chapters
- 00:00 Content Warning & Series Recap
- 01:00 Introduction — Two Young Men, One Park
- 02:00 Graeme's Origin Story — Daveyton During Lockdown 2020
- 03:30 The Academic Context — A 2018 Wits University Study
- 04:30 Traditional Healer Mpho Mpedi — The Many Forms of Healing
- 06:00 Blood Money — A Rising Trend
- 07:30 The SAPS Occult-Related Crimes Unit
- 10:00 Who Commissions Ritual Murders?
- 11:30 Suspects Arrested — The Justice System Stalls
- 13:00 In the Courtroom — The Magistrate Allegation
- 15:30 William Booth — What the Law Says
- 17:00 The Covenant — Why the Killings Continue
- 18:30 Introducing 'Pinto' — A Spectre Looms Large
- 21:00 The Border Incident — No Official Record
- 23:30 Elizabeth Jasop Runs Into 'Pinto'
- 25:30 SAPS Responds — Allegations Taken Seriously
- 26:30 'We Used to Kill Them All Over'
- 27:30 The Magistrate Swap — Family Suspicion Grows
- 29:30 The NPA Reveals — Phatwa Declared a State Patient
- 31:00 The Family Disputes the Diagnosis
- 32:30 The Law Explained — William Booth on State Patients
- 34:00 Jabulani's Case — The April 2025 Inquest
- 35:30 Key Witness 'John' Has Died
- 36:00 Could the Cases Be Reopened?
- 36:45 Another Murder in Mayfield — The Pattern Continues
- 37:15 Why Cases Go Cold — William Booth
- 37:45 Mpho Mpedi — Involve Traditional Healers
- 38:15 Cinder's Demands — Justice for the Poor
- 38:45 Brian Dubazana — What Daveyton Lost
- 39:00 The Families Speak — Trauma, Emptiness, Hope
- 39:20 Yende Park — A Final Visit
