Editor’s Desk – Africa on witchcraft and ritualism assets
Editor’s Desk – Africa on witchcraft and ritualism assets
November 25, 2022
The mentality of getting famous quick, has gripped many people, who think it’s better to become ironic, using ritualism and any means possible, even if its killing or raping.
That Africans are a deeply spiritual people is beyond doubt or debate, as it has become a fact that some have pointed to as getting in the way of Africa, moving quickly enough to higher heights of modernization, the argument being that spiritual leaders discourage development that has not been ‘sanctioned’ by ancestors.
The most grueling incident of some fellows, striving to get rich is when a Tsholotsho girl was raped, by an unknown person, who the father of the minor said was a goblin.
Surely to date no one from that village knows what exactly happened to the girl aged nine, who has since given birth to a child, most probably from the said goblin.
The whole community is still in quagmire, as to how a goblin can sire humans, because in African context, a goblin is a spiritual object used in witchcraft world to bewitch others for riches or just for cruelty and jealous.
For a long time in Zimbabwe, accusing a person of practicing witchcraft has been against the law. That is primarily because, apart from being difficult to prove, it alienates individuals from the society of which they are part.
Yet belief in witches and witchcraft remains strong, which is why communities come to a standstill, when a witch is discovered, as has been happening with interesting frequency in the last few months in both Harare and Bulawayo.
The recent Harare case, of a mother who stayed with a dead and decomposing body of her husband, is another perplexing scenario, that our government must take into consideration seriously, with the gravid it deserves.
The respected mother and grandmother from Zengeza, also kept his 39-year-old son in the ceiling, for reasons known to her, that the government of Zimbabwe must interrogate to get the gist of the ideology of keeping a decomposing husband and a son for 14 years in her ceiling.
Another still talk of district issue of Gokwe, when 26 panties, from village women were found dumped in a grazing area, with the village women each identifying their underwear, is something that must not be taken for granted.
While the 81-year-old Mashonaland man, who was caught in the act with a mentally ill young woman, it is also ideal that the government must seriously consider passing stiffer sentences to witchcraft perpetrators, especially the Matabeleland man, who slept with daughter, while his wife also slept with their son, most probably in a ritual to get riches.
The death by suicide of a village head in Kezi, when he was discovered that he was the one, who owned the goblins that terrorized nurses and teachers, in the local community, is one incident that Zimbabweans must never take for granted, as to how ritual wealth is not secure.
Last month, a man in his early 70s crash-landed at a Bulawayo CowdryPark house, after the winnowing basket that he was travelling in hit a hump in the not so favourable air that are also spiritually protected.
Incredible as it may seem, the police were called to take the elderly man who was completely in his birthday suit.
The question remains, is it really working to get rich by rituals, how long does that take, to be with such wealth? Email: christabvura@gmail.com with your responses.