There are two men in Zambia, practicing witchcraft and making charms to harm the President of the country and have become a source of fascination in the southern African nation.
The interest reflects the belief in the magical and supernatural phenomena that keeps in southern Africa. And it marks witchcraft and criminalizes Zambia.
“I hate this colonial legislation that tries to overcome a practice that doesn’t understand,” said the University of Zambia’s cultural heritage teachers. He said he fails to consider the nuances of traditional African beliefs.
“Traditional societies of Zambia and individuals believe in a strong relationship between human world and nature,” Moyok said.
The trial also has a high dose of political intrigue. The prosecutor’s allege hired a brother of Emmanuel Band – now a former running legislature – to curse Hakainde Hichilema presidents.
Some people have rejected Hichilema, who deals with the election next year. The president has not commented on the case.
“Court will allow medical witch and supposed witches to testify as a witness expert?” He asked a column with a lusaka contempt for newspapers.
Some other politicians in Zambia and other public figures believe that they believe in witchcraft, looking for supernatural support, stronger or more popular.
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Hichilema himself accused him of the use of witchcraft as the leader of the President Michael SATA, who stated that the magic of his home was stronger. Hichilem did not respond to that accusation for more than a decade.
Bottled chameleon, white powder and red fabric
Police said that in the present case were arrested in the hotel room of the capital, Lusaka, December, a cleaner was heard after hearing strangers. They owned a bottled camaleon and other items, including a mysterious white powder, red and unidentified animal tail. Men also deal with charges of cruelty to animals.
Police said a man admitted that they hired a curse to kill Hichilema. He was instructed more than a million dollars tested in court.
The case has attention because many of Zambiana take witchcraft seriously, said Enoch Ngoma, a journalist over 30 years of 30 years that has covered several trials.
The Judicial Power of Zambia said this trial would allow him to directly broadcast on television, which would be the second time it has happened for trial. But he reversed the decision, “referring agents.” He said he was against a direct broadcast of the Church of the Church of the Church of Zambia.
When the trial opened last week, the court was full of.
Many traditional beliefs survive next to his Christian official Christian religion. A study carried out by the Zambia law development committee, 79% of the authorities of reforming the laws, which found the existence of witchcraft in 2018.
The study was made because of questioning the action of witchcraft.
In 1914 Zambia passed in Britain “when it was part of the impact of the influence.” Actions are practicing witchcraft, a supernatural capacity calculated, annoying or injury calculated, any kind of spells or spells of any kind of any kind.
Cases of witchcraft were difficult to judge in Zambia with the trick to collect evidence. The cases are usually heard in traditional courts, and this is to reach the court of Magistrates of Lusaka. The punishment for practicing witchcraft is fine or two years in prison, with a chance to work hard.
“It’s hard to prove spells”
Meanwhile, the protection of witchcraft can be a good business.
Rodwell Vongo, PhD in Vongo, is a traditional healer and is the president of the traditional healer of Zambia. He said he would mention as a medical witch under the law, but he calls that derogatory term.
He lives in a Lusaka neighborhood and has a long list of middle class customers, excluding such beliefs that only keeps rural folk.
Most of his clients are women who seek charm and witchcraft for happy weddings, but many others seek protection against spells.
Wisdom Kaunda, a teacher, continued the trial of witchcraft and believes that his country can help determine how the future treats the future.
“Personally, I need to feel punished for someone to harm someone,” he said, but he added: “It’s hard to demonstrate in the disputes of spells.”
To believe witchcraft In some rural communities around Angola, it is also common despite lawyers from the church in Angola, in the Catholic Portuguese Cologne. Last year, the police said About 50 people died Once you have forced to drink a glass of grass in Angola, they didn’t prove witches.
In 2013, Fumpo David Bishop firms in Angola ACI told Africa The town’s socio-economic challenges “are forced to go to the practice of witchcraft, because they can get what they want, and so that they release poverty and get all those who need to survive.”
On a trip to Angola 2009, Pope Benedicti asked Catholics Shun witchcraft and witchcraft.
