Akawalaleli emadloti - Makhanya
M– President of the Witchdoctors Association of Swaziland Makhanya Makhanya said Mkhonta may be confronted by misfortune because he does not take instructions from his ancestors.
“To begin with, why does he say he is a Christian yet he uses all these kinds of muti that were found in his house. The possibility here is that he is not taking proper instructions from ancestors (emadloti) and they are now angry at him,” he said.
“You cannot be in church and give people water as a healing portion and yet claim not to be using muti. That water is muti on its own.
He said some people have ancestral spirits, but lack the understanding on how to operate with such spirits.
Eventually, he said, they tend to confuse things as they use the ancestral
This was not the first time that Mdabula was attacked by the same people, who accused him of witchcraft as last year his house was burnt in an arson attack.
He said he was asleep when someone came warning him that the door to his house was on fire.
“I quickly jumped outside and luckily, the fire was just starting, so I managed to extinguish it with the help of my neighbours.”
Burn
He later spent the night in another house, but the arsonists returned to completely burn the one he was initially sleeping in.
Member of the community police Jabulile Magagula confirmed the attack on Mdabula and said she had played a hand in saving him when someone wanted to spirits for healing purposes.
“This then angers the ancestors to the point that they start causing all the bad things to befall the person.
“This is like doing the work of a journalist without the education. One would commit serious mistakes and be liable to lawsuits,” he said.
ForCed
He said this was not the first time he heard about a mob that forced traditional healers to eat their own muti.
“There was another person at Manzana who was forced to eat his muti. I asked the people who forced him to do such,why they did that and they said the muti belonged to him so, he should not worry if it was not dangerous.
“When I studied the case closely I found that the person had disobeyed his ancestors, which is why they let him suffer that way,” said Makhanya.
burn the house he was sleeping in.
“I saw flames and quickly ran to inquire. I found that the flames were just starting and I shouted to him to get out quickly. That is how he survived.”
She said she had seen the person responsible for the fire running away from the scene. Magagula said she had also learnt about the incident in which Mdabula was forced to eat his muti.
Warned
“I warned the people responsible that if they want to challenge him, they must report him at the royal kraal and not to resort to violence,” she said.
She said the issue had been discussed at the royal kraal, where the people responsible for attacking Mdabula were also warned to desist from doing so.