The office of King Mabhoko III of the Ndebele tribe has blamed the deaths of 28 initiates in Mpumalanga’s highveld area on witchcraft. Ndzundza Tribal Authority (NTA) spokesperson Prince Dumisani Mahlangu told a Sapacorrespondent this week the number of deaths was unusually high. Read more here
A housemaid who was sentenced to five years in jail and deportation for using witchcraft against her Emirati employer’s family, has had her sentence reduced to three months. Read more here
Papua New Guinea has repealed its controversial Sorcery Act but has expanded its use of the death penalty. Under legislation passed in parliament on Tuesday, killings linked to allegations of witchcraft will now be treated as murder. Read more here
On May 20, the bones, skull and blood-stained clothes of a girl were found from a bush in Choramba tehsil. Read more here
Mbabane – Swaziland’s albinos have called on the government for protection before elections expected later this year, fearing their body parts will be harvested by candidates seeking good luck. Read more here
NELSPRUIT – A murder trial began in court this week that resembles the script of a horror movie. Four men appeared in the Nelspruit Circuit High Court for the muti murder of Mr Clarance Brown. Read more here
Mwanza. Magu-based civic organisation, ‘Maperece’, has constructed 150 housing units for the elderly discriminated by communities for allegedly taking part in notorious witchcraft practices. Read more here
Police on Friday said that locals thrashed a mother and her daughter, who is in her late twenties, on the charge of practising witchcraft in Makwanpur district. Read more here
STORIES OF child witches and brutal exorcisms underpinned by self-styled men and women of God who promise deliverance – for a small fee, of course – have been luridly reported in the British media.
It has provoked anger and shame among African communities who feel that the publicity on the phenomenon is an unspoken accusation of how ‘backwards’ the so-called ‘Dark Continent’ is. Read more here
A Gokwe woman, 67, has confessed to practising witchcraft as well as possessing 10 goblins that are terrorising fellow villagers. Read more here
