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  2. Witchcraft in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Witchcraft plays a significant role in the beliefs and culture of the Azande people, located in North Central Africa, particularly in regions like South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Northern Democratic Republic of Congo.

  3. Witchcraft Suppression Act, 1957 - Wikipedia

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    The Witchcraft Suppression Act 3 of 1957 is an act of the Parliament of South Africa that prohibits various activities related to witchcraft, witch smelling or witch-hunting. It is based on the Witchcraft Suppression Act 1895 of the Cape Colony, which was in turn based on the Witchcraft Act 1735 of Great Britain. [1]

  4. Traditional healers of Southern Africa - Wikipedia

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    Five sangomas in KwaZulu-Natal. Traditional healers of Southern Africa are practitioners of traditional African medicine in Southern Africa.They fulfil different social and political roles in the community like divination, healing physical, emotional, and spiritual illnesses, directing birth or death rituals, finding lost cattle, protecting warriors, counteracting witchcraft and narrating the ...

  5. Neopaganism in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Neopaganism in South Africa is primarily represented by the traditions of Wicca, Neopagan witchcraft, Germanic neopaganism and Neo-Druidism. The movement is related to comparable trends in the United States and Western Europe and is mostly practiced by White South Africans of urban background; [ 1 ] [ 2 ] it is to be distinguished from folk ...

  6. Modern witch hunts - Wikipedia

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    Modern witch hunts surpass the body counts of early-modern witch-hunting. [1] Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, and Nigeria, experiences a high prevalence of witch-hunting. In Cameroon, accusations have resurfaced in courts, often involving child-witchcraft scares.

  7. Mpumalanga Witchcraft Suppression Bill - Wikipedia

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    In June 2007 the Office of the Premier of the Mpumalanga province in South Africa leaked a draft Mpumalanga Witchcraft Suppression Bill of 2007. [1]Unlike the Witchcraft Suppression Act of 1957 (which was directed against witch-hunting), the proposed Witchcraft Control Act would explicitly acknowledge the existence of witchcraft and criminalise it.

  8. Witchcraft accusations in Ghana could be banned by new law - AOL

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    While it is not uncommon for people to be accused of witchcraft in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in rural communities, the woman's death c Witchcraft accusations in Ghana could be banned by new law

  9. Witchcraft accusations against children in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Witchcraft accusations against children in Africa have received increasing international attention in the first decade of the 21st century. [1] [2] [3]The phenomenon of witch-hunts in Sub-Saharan Africa is ancient, [4] but the problem has been exasperated due to charismatic preachers such as Helen Ukpabio. [4]

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