Witchcraft Mob Fears

Residents of a tiny rural Eastern Cape village are living in fear because, they say, local youths are accusing them of witchcraft and threatening to kill them.

They told of their fears after a mob killing in which three members of one family were murdered at Gora, near Lusikisiki.

Two more intended victims managed to escape.

Six people in their 20s, including a ward committee member, were arrested in connection with the deaths.

At the subsequent meeting at the local police station, elderly villagers told police that youths from the village were terrorising them, threatening that “they would be the next victims.” Full Story

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