The Association for Secular Humanism (ASH) has said cases of witchcraft-based violence could be better handled by the police unlike sending back the complainants to resolve them in their respective communities. ASH executive director Dr George Thindwa made the observation during a series of sensitization meetings with the police, traditional authorities Chiwalo and Chikweo, and […]
Police officers in Malawi’s central district of Dedza have been warned of unspecified action should they continue giving too much clemency to people suspected of practicing witchcraft. Angry community leaders and villagers Wednesday took turns lambasting the law enforcers of failing their duties for treating witchcraft related cases with kid gloves. The leaders and community members claimed […]
The Lilongwe Magistrate court Monday adjourned a case in which four people are answering charges of removing and vending private body parts after ruling that the suspects have a case to answer. Two of the accused Samalani Jabu and Lufeyo Mphimbi are being accused of removing human body tissues which is contrary to section 18(a) […]
Mzuzu First Grade Magistrate has urged Members of Parliament to revisit the penalty given to persons who are found guilty of sleeping with other people through magic if communities are to be safe from such malpractices. First Grade Magistrate Cuthbert Phiri made the appeal on Wednesday when he presided over a case involving a 27 […]
Police in Kasungu are hunting for a man suspected to have torched her 65-year- old mother on suspicion that she killed her sister through witchcraft. Landani Nyirenda, the suspect, is believed to have gone to her mother’s house and set ablaze the house at around 2:00am on Sunday while the woman was fast asleep hence […]
the other day, I read a newspaper article that made me chuckle. The gist of the article was that some witchdoctors had expressed their wish to seek the permission of the courts to allow them to “take action” against George Thindwa, presumably by bewitching him so he could die or have some misfortune befall him. […]
The High Court in Mzuzu has restrained Village Headman Green Mwafongo and his Wanyambala (Indunas) from evicting or chasing Winston Sikamba from his home village Donald Village, Traditional Authority Kyungu in Karonga district following allegations that he was killing people in the area through witchcraft. Judge Dingiswayo Madise also restrained the Village Headman from dealing […]
Two Malawian men will the next eight years languish in jail after a court convicted them for hacking their 67-year-old grandmother’s left leg. The two, identified as Wilson Misokwe, 19 and Medson Jafali, 29, hacked their grandmother, Margret Wesley, with a panga knife on suspicion that she was practicing witchcraft. The incident occurred in January at […]
Jean-Phillppe insisted that we cross the Lweya River and go to the other side. From the glitter in his eyes and the smoothness of his gradual smile, I concluded that my friend had literally foreign in love with the Durban-Chipembeli shoreline. What surprised him, he said, was how the texture and colour of the sand […]
A Malawian woman in the lakeshore district of Salima has given birth to a weird-looking baby, the first ever such case to be reported in the country’s history. The baby has very strange features that have left Malawians disturbed and astounded. Born to a mother believed to be in her 30s, the baby has a […]
After successfully running ‘Eradication of witchcraft based violence project’ in eight districts of the country, the Association for Secular Humanism (ASH) has taken a similar three year project worth K206, 980, 200 to Neno district in southern Malawi. Speaking after briefing district council officials at Neno Community Hall, the ASH Executive Director, George Thindwa said […]
A traditional medical practitioner in the central region district of Dedza who declared his capabilities to bewitch Association for Secular Humanism (ASH) Executive Director, George Thindwa, had his soft belly exposed when he shunned him this week. Thindwa challenges that witchcraft does not exist. He pledged a reward of K1 million to anyone who will […]
A traditional medical practitioner in Dedza has come out in the open to express his interest to bewitch Association for Secular Humanism (ASH) Executive Director, George Thindwa, for challenging that witchcraft does not exist. Thindwa is an activist fighting for rights of people persecuted for allegedly practicing witchcraft which is not recognised by Malawian laws […]
The Association for Secular Humanism Executive Director George Thindwa has repeated his daring call for witches and wizards in the country to bewitch him insisting witchcraft is only a mere belief with no evidence to prove its existence. He made the challenge in an interview in Kasungu on the sidelines of a District Executive Committee […]
Association of Secular Humanism executive director George Thindwa has called for an end to violence against suspected witches, maintaining his stand that witchcraft is a belief and that witches do not exist. Thindwa said, if witchcraft really existed, he would have been bewitched by now following his K200, 000 offer to anyone who would bewitch […]
A 25- year- old man who insisted to be a wizard before Thyolo Second Grade Magistrate Court was on Wednesday found guilty of criminal trespass and fined K6000, in default serve a six-month jail term. Lameck Manjomo, who was initially being tried for burglary, stunned the court when he denied he was not a thief, […]
In a clear manifestation that witchcraft is real in Malawi, the country’s vice president who is also Minister of Health, Khumbo Kachali on Tuesday while speaking in Parliament pleaded with one of the legislators to ask traditional leaders in her area to convince their subjects to stop bewitching health workers in government institutions. The vice […]
A Magistrate Court in Mzimba district has fined a Witchdoctor MK20,000 or in default serve a 2 year imprisonment with hard labour after convicting him with the offence of charging a person with Witchcraft contrary to section 4 of Witch Craft Act. The Court has also fined three of the Witchdoctor’s assistance MK8,000 each or […]