two chiefs HANGED for medicine murder, 1949. they cut the man while he was still alive.

This is the one that the tourist-board Africa never mentions and it's documented to the day. Basutoland, now Lesotho, the 1940s. There was a whole epidemic of liretlo, medicine murders, where people were killed and parts cut off them, often while still alive, to make medicine that strengthens a chie……