/ 15 January 2001

WITCHDOCTOR SUGGESTS SEX WITH MOTHER

A Malawian family is searching for a witchdoctor who advised their 26-year-old son to have sex with his mother if he wanted to be a successful businessman. The son, James Mushango, went mad after he failed to carry out the witchdoctor’s instructions. Mushango, a small-scale businessman who bought fish in Mangochi and sold them in the commercial city of Blantyre, decided to boost his earnings by obtaining charms from a witchdoctor. “The doctor told him he had to administer the charms by having sex with his mother,” said a friend who declined to be named. “But his mother refused, saying it was an unforgivable sin for a mother to have sex with her own son. He later tried to rape her, but this also failed.” When Mushango went back to Mozambique to inform the witchdoctor that he had failed to follow his instructions, he discovered the witchdoctor had moved. Relatives said a week after his return to Malawi, Mushango went mad and started raving about if killed them through magic he would be turned into a millionaire overnight. His relatives are now trying to trace the witchdoctor in an attempt to restore Mushango’s sanity and to take disciplinary action against the witchdoctor. – African Eye News Service