Mulanje supports amendment of witchcraft act
Mulanje supports amendment of witchcraft act
Chiefs, religious leaders and other stakeholders in Mulanje Thursday agreed that the current Witchcraft Act be amended so that perpetrators of witchcraft get punished.
The suggestions for amendment of the act follow a consultative meeting held at Mulanje organized by the Malawi Law Commission to solicit ideas from the public on how to address the witchcraft problem.
Stakeholders commended government through the Malawi Law Commission for the consultative meetings, saying stories about witchcraft were widespread and endangered people’s lives.
In his remarks, Senior Chief Malemia of Nsanje, who is one of the commissioners, said the issue of witchcraft could not be left to the Law Commission alone to decide on how to curb it.
An official at Malawi Law Commission, Isaac Songeya, said the current witchcraft act was instituted on May 12, 1911 adding that due to increasing witchcraft related incidences the commission had been getting calls for the amendment of the act since 1996.
At the meeting stakeholders agreed that witchcraft existed and that the act be amended to punish the culprits. The meeting also agreed that civic education be conducted to sensitise people to avoid victimizing innocent people especially the elderly.
It was also agreed that matters of witchcraft be settled in traditional courts comprising of a magistrate, traditional leaders as well as herbalists who would determine whether witchcraft took place or not.
Songeya said all the views that were suggested at the meeting would be discussed at a regional meeting to be held after the district consultative meetings.
Just how do you prove that one is a witch? We alll know that asing’anga cant help us to prove that one is a witch or not because asing’anga ndi achinyengo ndipo ndi abodza. Kodi simunawerenge za sing’anga matsimbi?!So many innocent poeple have been killed or their lives destroyed chifukwa cha bodza la asing’anga. Self confession does not prove that one is a witch, kodi simunamvepo kuti munthu wapepetulidwa? Munthu akapepetulidwa amachita ndi kuyankhula zomwe sakufuna. Asing’anga sangatithandize chifukwa iwowo ndiye afitiwo.
So ow do we prove that one is a Witch and does the fact that we cant prove prohibit us from having a Law?
A Chifundo mwationjeza a ku Mulanjefe? kodi talakwa kuchokera malo amene amachita appreciate luso ndi chikhalidwe cha makolo? mungolodzedwa za zii kutitayitsa mankhwala mmlo moti tichekere the Flames this coming January.
apa pafunika kupeza mfiti zosachulukira 10, ndiye boma azipatse immunity. mfiti zimene zidzithandiza boma kugwira mfiti zina mu court. you must send a thief to catch a thief, eyeeee!tueeeee! asing’anga ena ndiamfiti ndiye adzithandiza boma kupeza mfiti zimemenezi. koma m’mene zikuwonekela, zikukhala ngati 90% of children of btwn 0 – 12 year ndi amfiti
U pple u are full of fear there is no ufiti on this earth. You die from known diseases. A malawi chakudya chovuika, malo ogona ventilation zero, cleaniliness zero, zipatala zero, makhwala zero, sex mungo boilitsa no condom, mowa kachasu you think you can last. Dont blame others when you are the fiti
Guys, the people who call themselves witches and wizards don’t really have any supernatural powers.
If some person who calls himself a witch or wizard convinces someone to kill his mother, then arrest that guy for murder and the so-called ‘witch’ for soliciting murder.
If some person who calls himself a witch supplies another with a ‘potion’ that kills someone else, the arrest that guy for murder and the so-called ‘witch’ for aiding and abetting a murder.
And if a so-called ‘witch’ is locked up in prison, then that person can’t do any more harm because there isn’t any such thing as nocturnal flights.
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I agree with Azungu. By implementing laws on witch craft, we are in fact giving evil and mean people the power to “bewitch” somebody by merely playing on the fear of the people. Nowhere in the modern world are there laws against witch craft as this is something that belonged in the dark, dark ages before civilization came!! We live in a modern society with cable tv. (A signal traveling through the air is more supernatural than somebody chanting a few bad things!) Yet, we don’t axe the television every time we put it on and see somebody speaking on the other side of the world! Wake up. As a christian society, we know that there are evil unseen powers at work. But do we fear the work of evil so much that we need the law to protect us? Put on the garments of warfare for Christ, rebuke the Devil and he will flee from you!
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