4 suspected of using lions in a murder By Michael Wines NYT, IHT
JOHANNESBURG Violence is no stranger to South Africa, whose major cities suffer some of the highest homicide rates anywhere. But police officers and ordinary citizens alike are reeling this week in the wake of a report by the police that an angry employer may have literally thrown a disgruntled former worker to the lions.
In Limpopo Province in the country's northeast, a wild, hardscrabble region abutting Zimbabwe and Mozambique, the police have jailed four men while they investigate the apparent death of Nelson Shisane, 38, a former worker for a construction company.