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Children labelled as witches in Nigeria are often abandoned, shunned by society and turfed out into the streets.
Youngsters in Tanzania who are suffering from epilepsy or who are just ‘naughty’ face exorcisms, beatings and even death.
Two women had their throats slit and were hacked on suspicion of being witches, a week after seven people were burned to death on the same suspicion.
Police in Tanzania say 23 people were arrested in connection with the crime of seven people, accused of witchcraft, have been burned alive.
A media report that President Jacob Zuma practised witchcraft during apartheid was "ridiculous and misleading", says the presidency.
After President Jacob Zuma called on his ancestors to help secure his next term, Mpho Moshe Matheolane wonders how the gods would react to this.
Though defined as disabled, the state does not accord a albinos any rights and South Africans "are as deaf as the ground", activists say.
Humanist Leo Igwe has taken on popular pastor Helen Ukpabio over the hunting of "child witches" in Nigeria.
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/ 23 February 2012
Four people have been killed in Tanzania in clashes between police and thousands of demonstrators angry at a spate of alleged witchcraft killings.
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/ 4 September 2011
Chanting to cure snakebites and claiming to be a reincarnated spouse to obtain sex could be banned by an Indian state to protect the vulnerable.
When Kanthukako Supaunyolo’s grandson woke up in the night with a nosebleed, his parents were enraged by what they saw as a bad omen.
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/ 12 January 2011
A Malawian rights group said it had paid fines to secure the release of three elderly women sent to prison for witchcraft.
Jeremiah (10) stares blankly at a window, tears rolling down his scarred cheeks, recounting how his father doused him with petrol and set him ablaze.
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/ 27 January 2009
ANC member Tokyo Sexwale is a ”destitute follower of the ANC” and a ”defeated man”, Cope women’s forum in the Eastern Cape said on Tuesday.