Witchcraft

Feminism 101: Pussies are not for grabbing

Article Joy Watson - 6 Sep 2019

It’s been 30 years since I found my voice – now ‘nasty’ women around the world are fighting back

The witch is she who dares to act alone

Article bogdan TagDiv - 30 Nov 2018

Women have to unite in a country and parts of the world where the ultimate subjugation is death

What’s behind children being cast as witches in Nigeria

Article Staff Reporter - 15 Apr 2016

Children labelled as witches in Nigeria are often abandoned, shunned by society and turfed out into the streets.

‘Bad’ children condemned as witches

Africa bogdan TagDiv - 10 Sep 2015

Youngsters in Tanzania who are suffering from epilepsy or who are just 'naughty' face exorcisms, beatings and even death.

Two more suspected ‘witches’ hacked to death in Tanzania

Africa Staff Reporter - 17 Oct 2014

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.

Seven accused of witchcraft burned alive in Tanzania

Africa Sapa - 10 Oct 2014

Police in Tanzania say 23 people were arrested in connection with the crime of seven people, accused of witchcraft, have been burned alive.

Presidency rejects claims of Zuma’s apartheid witchcraft

Article Sapa - 10 Jan 2014

A media report that President Jacob Zuma practised witchcraft during apartheid was "ridiculous and misleading", says the presidency.

By the gods, what now?

Article Mpho Moshe Matheolane - 28 Nov 2012

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.

Albinos’ lonely call for recognition

Article bogdan TagDiv - 16 May 2012

Though defined as disabled, the state does not accord a albinos any rights and South Africans "are as deaf as the ground", activists say.

Suffer the little children

Article bogdan TagDiv - 10 Apr 2012

Humanist Leo Igwe has taken on popular pastor Helen Ukpabio over the hunting of "child witches" in Nigeria.

Tanzania witchcraft protest turns violent, four killed

Africa Staff Reporter - 23 Feb 2012

Four people have been killed in Tanzania in clashes between police and thousands of demonstrators angry at a spate of alleged witchcraft killings.

Nothing magical about witchcraft, says Indian state

Article bogdan TagDiv - 4 Sep 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.

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