RobinH

Good. This persecution of people because of supposed"witchcraft" is just crazy.
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Pointman

@RobinH - 10 years effective imprisonment for murder is not good. They should have got life. It is crazy that people still believe that witchcraft actually exists. They should also find the sangoma who told their mom that she had been bewithced by the old lady and deal with him too.
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RobinH

Pointman: What I mean is that it is good something happened at all.
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Mbeva

Witchcraft is a theory of causation and causal links
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Sompisi

Abanye badakwe yi "mbamba" so early in the morning.......
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theMrs

Ijo! i wonder what brought about this act. anyway thanks to sowetan and wikipedia for the free education.

Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957 From Wikisource
Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957 (1957)
enacted by the Parliament of South Africa
as amended related portals: Acts of the Parliament of South Africa, Witchcraft.The Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957 (Act No. 3 of 1957) is an act of the Parliament of South Africa that prohibits various activities related to witchcraft and "witch smelling". It was enacted by the apartheid regime, and is based on a similar colonial-era statute of the Cape Colony. It has been argued that some provisions of the act are no longer constitutional in that they violate the Bill of Rights, which protects the freedom of religion and the freedom to participate in cultural life. As a consequence the act is currently under review by the South African Law Reform Commission.
The act came into force on 22 February 1957. It was amended in 1970 by the Witchcraft Suppression Amendment Act, 1970, which added one new offence (purporting to use supernatural powers to accuse another person of causing death, injury or damage) and converted fines denominated in pounds to rands. It was amended again in 1997 by the Abolition of Corporal Punishment Act, 1997, which abolished the use of whipping to punish certain offences.




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MommaC

"..the two discussed his suspicions over a five-litre bottle of wine and a bottle of brandy."

There's your leg's 'bewitchment' right there, boet. Gout.

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veezee

Yoh these peeps murdered their own granny...yeses wat is dis world coming to....lol only in Limpopo #just kidding#
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Idohl

Let's hear it from Limpopo haters. Silent as lambs. Pity on Grams though.
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Galfrend

Just 10 years? soon they will be out on parole.
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Blackstone.lebs

We all better get used to saying "at least they got locked up", it seems we won't read about heavy sentences for senseless killings in this lifetime. They all get slapped on the wrist.
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DeCock01

Beating up an elderly woman...just the thought of it...her trying to defend herself while two drunk scvms beat her up to a pulp...an 86 year old woman who probably cant even lift her arms because of old age...screaming and pleading with them to stop...im truly hurt...
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veezee

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#The postmortem report confirmed the women suffered lacerations to the head, a fractured skull, fractured ribs, bleeding on the brain and a laceration to the liver. She died in hospital.
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Aybo only 10 years for this yoh ay ngeke there is no justice in this country
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WordofGod

A sangoma, whom he approached for advice, reportedly confirmed that he had been bewitched.
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the kingdom of darkness will make sure that families are divided, destroyed and kil.led. not only within families, it also happens in the neighborhoods, amongst friends, the list is endless. the mission has been accomplished....this is sad. my Lord hav mercy
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willows

u people think witchcraft is only a theory! wait until u see it, if u happen to get da oppoturnity. since well ur living in tows and surbabs i dnt blame u for nt knowin. witchcraft daz exist, u find a person whom u saw being burried, but u'l fnd him alive
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Ann

but really how do u confront a witch mara??
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DeCock01

Ann
but really how do u confront a witch mara??
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How do you prove that one is a witch..??
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RobinH

Are we still in the middle ages, or what?
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WordofGod

@ann
confront the evil spirit in the witch and not the person but you can only do it by the word of God. it doesn't help to ki.ll a person cause the evil spirit she possess that makes her/him to practice witchcraft, will depart from her body once s/he dies and search for another body to occupy. the next person it occupies, will also do the same, practice witchcraft .... it is an endless practice. these are the evil schemes of the kingdom of darkness.

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MommaC

Ann

LOL
How do you confront a witch?
Well first off you need to confirm that it is a witch. The old dunking chair was a good option. You strap her into a chair and dunk her under the water. If she dies then she wasn't a witch, if she lives then you burrn her at the stake. The method of beating her up and if she lives then she was a witch is far less scientific but possibly has its merits in dry areas.

Are you for real?
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KarlZimbiri

2222222
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TKay

eish family matters are tough - aaii bo kuku ba must stop o loya bana ba bona maan
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RobinH

MommaC: As I said> You're really cooking today.
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RobinH

Friday and the coId seems to have given up :)
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Budapat

you'll find that the Granny was the bread winner with her UMDENDE, now that she's gone troubles gonna rock that family. the two M O R O N S should be transferred to Pretoria Max ''papa wag vir julle''
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HOTWINGS

satane o eme ka maoto o batla ba tlo yang mollong wa dihele le yena!
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Fancylibra

Thats sad on granny's side but boys can't really proof that they we bewitchd
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T-eddy

Aaaag ths things of witch craftting are for real! whom of you can deny it?????? If it ws of you, a mean yr loving mother being beWitched, would u jst seat bck n watch old Grumpy Magogo going up n down, playin games wth yr family jst like tht? a mean, who ws next??? I'd Do the same....n think bwt being jailed afterwards!!! Akgggg sleep well magogo..u sh**T!!!!!

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