Medicine murder in colonial Lesotho: the anatomy of a moral crisis
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| adam_text | MEDICINE MURDER
IN COLONIAL LESOTHO
THE ANATOMY OF
A MORAL CRISIS
COLIN MURRAY and PETER SANDERS
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
for the International African Institute, London
CONTENTS
List of maps ix
List of tables, figures and graphs ix
Note on photographs ix
Preface xi
Note on names, orthography and pronunciation xiv
Abbreviations xv
INTRODUCTION 1
A defining moment 1
Official and popular reaction 3
Key questions 5
Investigating medicine murder 7
Ritual murder : the potential for broader study 10
Parti MEDICINE MURDER: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND,
POLITICAL CONTEXT AND CASE STUDIES
1 Basutoland: a very prickly hedgehog 13
A policy of benign neglect 13
Economic failure and chiefly abuse 18
The Pirn Report 23
The Khubelu reforms of 1938 25
The Treasury reforms of 1946 27
Disputes over the succession 30
CASE STUDY 1
The case of the cobbler s head: Morija, 1945 37
A migratory body 37
The investigation 39
The preparatory examination and the trial 42
The judgement 45
Discords 49
iri MEDICINE MURDERIN COLONIAL LESOTHO
2 Medicine murder: belief and incidence 52
Sesotho beliefs in medicine 53
Early evidence of medicine murder 58
The incidence of medicine murder:
a very startling increase ? 59
CASE STUDY 2
The chiefs of today have turned against the people :
Koma-Koma, 1948 68
Something going on in this village 69
The investigation and the preparatory examination 73
The High Court trial and the judgement 75
Struggles in the Makhabane chieftainship 78
Allegations of police misconduct 79
The failure of appeal 85
3 Medicine murder: the debates of the late 1940s 87
This country is overcast with a terrible cloud 87
Chiefs, politicians and police 89
The High Commissioner, the chieftainship and the question
of incorporation 92
Towards a climax of despair 96
CASE STUDY 3
The battle of the medicine horns : Mamathe s, late 1940s 99
Two murders 99
Motives and context: two principals 102
Motives and context: the lesser players 107
The judgement 110
Allegations against the police and the accomplice witnesses 111
The appeal: accomplice evidence 113
Aftermath 116
4 Narrative and counter-narrative:
explaining medicine murder 118
Commission of Enquiry, 1949 118
Reaction to the Jones report, 1951 124
The official narrative: heart of darkness 128
The counter-narrative: colonial conspiracy 131
CONTENTS vii
CASE STUDY 4
A most unsavoury state of affairs : Mokhotlong, 1940s-50s 136
A significant cluster? 137
Mokhotlong District: a political history 139
Medicine murder in Mantsebo s area 143
Matlere acquitted (1): the murder of Tsoeunyane Rabolai, 1952 145
Matlere acquitted (2): the murder of Kaiser Mofana, 1959 149
The notoriety of Sesemane Kao 153
5 Diagnoses and resolutions: from failure to recrimination
to silence 156
Proposals for change 156
The Round Table Conference of 1953 and the anti-liretlo
campaign 161
Attacks on the police, 1956: the Council and the conference 165
The late 1950s and the early 1960s: the government loses
interest 169
Independence 174
INTERLUDE Medicine murder and the literary imagination 176
Part II MEDICINE MURDER: AN ANALYSIS OF PROCESS
6 Murderers and their motives 189
Instigators 189
Motives 195
Accomplices 201
7 Plots, murders, mutilations and medicine 213
Instigating a murder 213
Choosing a victim 214
Beer-drinks and ambushes 218
Mutilating and killing 222
Disposing of the body 227
Making the medicine 231
8 Police investigations 233
Searching for the body 233
The post-mortem examination 236
Police enquiries 238
The police against the chiefs? 242
viii MEDICINE MURDER IN COLONIAL LESOTHO
9 The judicial process 254
The preparatory examination 254
The courts and the judges 256
The trial 259
Accomplice evidence 261
Judgements: convictions and acquittals 265
The discretion of the High Commissioner 274
Execution 275
AFTERMATH 277
CONCLUSION 284
Conspiracy theories 284
Insecurity and contagion 290
Explaining moral crisis 291
Witchcraft and medicine murder 294
Belief, ambivalence and change 295
ADDENDUM Towards frameworks of comparison 299
Medicine murder in southern Africa 299
The crisis in Swaziland, 1970s 300
The crisis in Venda, late 1980s 302
Intra-regional comparison: the cases of Swaziland, Venda
and Basutoland 307
Inter-regional comparison: murder in late colonial Africa 308
APPENDIX Summary of suspected medicine murder cases,
1895-1966 311
Notes 425
Sources 464
Index 481
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