Witchcraft exists, but Modimo o phala baloi!
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(South Africa has laws that recognise occults It sometimes takes time but prayer does and witchcraft) who in turn engaged a certified work. Witchcraft is a spell, so it eventually sangoma who confirmed that the substance was fades. Ditlhare di a apoga because they are a black magic potion that had been “traditionally “human engineered.” engineered” to cause a car accident. African But the grace of God is eternal. Modimo science! Go raya gore the HR officer o ditshubile. o phala baloi! A few weeks ago, a thokolosi
It’s either she is a powerful prayer warrior, or she exorcism was trending on social media and has a strong traditional doctor. Whatever the while some people applauded traditional case, her prompt action saved her life. Besides, African churches for their great spiritual when you associate with rural bumpkin typa’ work, sceptics brandished it hogwash. folk, it goes without saying that you have to be A popular social media commentator, vigilant, because it’s common knowledge that Setlhomo, shared a lengthy post, questioning some of them are myopic and primitive, and some black people’s belief in witchcraft. still believe in using muti. O kgona go omana le Someone commented: ‘Fa o batla go bona motho wa teng wena o re ga se sepe hela, ene a bo gore ba heditse le wena baloi, a bo o bona o a go tsamaela dingaka. Yo mongwe fa a a bona e sa dumele gore boloi bo teng!’ ka re o tla mo “kgaoganya” le nyatsi ya gagwe ya Another wrote: ‘Kana bahumi ke bone ba letlakala ya ko tirong, o go leka ka ditlhare. Yo ba romellang bahumengi dithokolosi fa ba sa mongwe fa a le lehuha mo go wena, kana a bona tlhole ba di batla...’ e ka re o tla mo gaisa, o simolola go ithutela boloi But it’s interesting to observe that ga se mo go wena. Dodgy! It can be tempting to dismiss gantsi o ka utlwalela thokolosi e lelekilwe mo witchcraft but not everything can be understood di suburb le mahelo a mangwe a go nnang
in the physical context; the spiritual realm exists, batho ba itsholelo e botokanyana. Di thokolosi
and some people distort it negatively with gantsi di utlwalelwa ko magaeng… Ke eng, a dubious intentions. di tshaba di aircon?!
There is a joke by Noko Mashaba, where he is preparing to go out on a date but everything seems to go wrong, and he suspects witchcraft. He logs onto the Internet and types a Google search that reads: ‘Ke loiwa ke mang?’ The Google response is: ‘No search results found.’ He exclaims: “Heban’ baloi ba, ba setse ba lowa le yone Google!”
I recently came across an amusing news report about a landmark case in a CCMA (labour) court in South Africa, where a worker was accused of using muti at work. According to the details, he had a physical altercation with a colleague at work, and the HR officer