PRISON FOR WITCHCRAFT
STRANGE AFRICAN BELIEFS.
INNOCENT LIFE TAKEN.
(N.Z. Herald Correspondent.) Found guilty of witchcraft, a Transvaal native, Matje Ndluvu, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life. Ndluvu pointed out a certain native, Modiba, as responsible for the stroke of lightning which killed another native. According to the custom of the tribe, Modiba was thereupon seized and tied up in a hut, where he was beheaded with an axe by the mother and sister of the native who was killed by the lightning. At the last circuit Court these two native women were sentenced to death. Two natives who seized and tied up the native who was beheaded were each sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1931, Page 7
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116PRISON FOR WITCHCRAFT Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1931, Page 7
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