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A Kwazulu Natal mother, a relative, and a Pastor are due to appear in court on Monday in connection with the brutal murder of the woman’s two nine-year-old daughters.
They were arrested last Thursday in the Ezimbambeni Area near Nkandla.
Police spokesperson, Colonel Thembeka Mbele, said the arrests were a sequel to an investigation into the deaths of the girls in March.
She said police responded to an anonymous tip-off on 24 March and went to the woman’s house to investigate.
Mbele said the family was initially very hostile towards the police, who found the two girls lying on the floor with bruises all over their bodies.
One girl was already dead and the other unconscious. The little girl was rushed to hospital where she also later died.
Mbele said the family reported that the girls were “attacked by evil spirits” and in a bid to rid them of these spirits, family members, including a Pastor, also beat the girls as part of a form of “exorcism”.
They were also taken to a witch-doctor who could do nothing for the family.
Colone Mbele said medical reports indicated that the girls had been subjected to “severe beatings" which caused their deaths.
Police also established that another girl from the same family had died under mysterious circumstances in 2015 and was buried a day later without the family informing authorities.
The three, aged between 31 and 35, will be charged with two counts of murder when they appear in the Nkandla Magistrate’s court, while police will also probe the death of the other girl five years ago.
