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Unknown People Stab Zimba Woman, 91, Several Times
A 91-YEAR-OLD woman of Chief Simwatachela’s area in Zimba is battling for her life at Zimba Mission Hospital after being repeatedly stabbed by unknown people on suspicion that she is a witch.
Southern Province deputy commissioner of police Milner Muyambango said yesterday that the incident happened on Saturday around 21:00 hours at the woman’s house.
He named the victim as Tedela Munkombwe.
“Unknown people entered Ms Munkombwe’s grass-thatched hut around 21:00hours and stabbed her several times with a knife, her condition is quite bad.
“People in the community believe the old woman is allegedly a witch,” Mr Muyambango said.
Cases of the elderly reportedly being killed or injured on suspicion of practicing witchcraft are rampant in some rural parts of Southern Province.
Killing or injuring a person on suspicion of practicing witchcraft is a crime under the Witchcraft Act .
Posted by
Anderson Chisala
November 20, 2014 at 9:31 am
PEOPLE are demonic instead of thanking God the woman has reached 91yrs Old u want to kill her.
God help these uneducated fellows.
Sikiza
November 20, 2014 at 10:18 am
Too bad how did they know that he is the one who bewitch him. Witchcrafts are really not tolarated but how to justify
Sole Williamu
November 20, 2014 at 11:42 am
When they finish killing old people they turn on vulnerable children!!
Magic Bird
November 20, 2014 at 11:49 am
Tackle and eradicate the problems associated with this irrational belief.
Magic Bird
November 20, 2014 at 11:50 am
Traditionally, African people attribute anything they do not understand (or do not want to understand), any incident or occurrence they cannot explain, to witchcraft.
In Senegal, they believe witches live inside the pawpaw fruit. The belief is that witches use it as their operational base at night.
Trixy
November 20, 2014 at 12:02 pm
True.
Trixy
November 20, 2014 at 12:00 pm
In most Zambian villages, people always associate old people to witchcraft. This is wrong. People should realise that (apart from good health)long life can be attributed to positive factors in one’s life (positive behaviour) e.g. discipline and respect for one’s elders. Even the bible says “Respect your mother and father so that your days on earth may be long…..”.
Magic Bird
November 20, 2014 at 12:01 pm
People can suspect anyone of engaging in witchcraft, it is mostly vulnerable members (old people) of the population who are openly accused, and tortured to death.
Magic Bird
November 20, 2014 at 12:03 pm
In Malawi women with grey hairs and red eyes are branded witches. Old women, particularly those who are childless, are often accused of witchcraft.
Magic Bird
November 20, 2014 at 12:04 pm
EKET, Nigeria — The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall.
His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he struggled, burning away his face and eyes. The emaciated boy barely had strength left to whisper the name of the church that had denounced him – Mount Zion Lighthouse.
A month later, he died.
black muntu
November 20, 2014 at 12:14 pm
jackson
November 20, 2014 at 2:31 pm
Do people have evidence, that this one is a witch, so when you become old is means you become a witch,what about those people who have tabbed that old woman if it was there grandmother how do they fill, they can get upset,one day will also grow old, are we ready to be killed also, please people of southern Provence think twice ad stop killing people, you time will can also.