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Feminism 101: Pussies are not for grabbing

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It’s been 30 years since I found my voice – now ‘nasty’ women around the world are fighting back
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The witch is she who dares to act alone

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Women have to unite in a country and parts of the world where the ultimate subjugation is death
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What’s behind children being cast as witches in Nigeria

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

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Youngsters in Tanzania who are suffering from epilepsy or who are just 'naughty' face exorcisms, beatings and even death.
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Two more suspected ‘witches’ hacked to death in Tanzania

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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.
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Seven accused of witchcraft burned alive in Tanzania

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Police in Tanzania say 23 people were arrested in connection with the crime of seven people, accused of witchcraft, have been burned alive.
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Presidency rejects claims of Zuma’s apartheid witchcraft

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

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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.
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Albinos’ lonely call for recognition

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

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Humanist Leo Igwe has taken on popular pastor Helen Ukpabio over the hunting of "child witches" in Nigeria.
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Tanzania witchcraft protest turns violent, four killed

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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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Nothing magical about witchcraft, says Indian state

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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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Malawi’s ‘witches’ challenge colonial-era sorcery law

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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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Malawi rights group pays fines to free elderly ‘witches’

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A Malawian rights group said it had paid fines to secure the release of three elderly women sent to prison for witchcraft.
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Nigerian children branded as witches in deadly purge

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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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