It's The End Of The World As We Know It (Wrapped-Up In A "Wellness" Program)

 

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NewAgers, Listen Up: It's Got Your Name On It

"In Zimbabwe, witchcraft is still common in rural areas.  Hardly a week passes without a local report or newspaper story on the practice.  For example, police recently cornered a man at the Mbare Mbare bus terminal, after they discovered a live cobra snake in his luggage.  He told officers the reptile was one of his witching tools.

About two weeks later, some women were discovered wandering naked in the early hours of the morning near Highfield. After being confronted by locals, they claimed they’d 'flown' from a rural location during one of several night time escapades. But they said something went wrong and the spell wore off, before they could return to their original location.



Four years ago, the government proclaimed that supernatural powers do exist. But it says it still prohibits the use of magic if it harms someone."

-- Cole Mallard, introducing the rest of us to the perfect home for NewAgers - homeopaths, yogic flyers, Reiki healers: all would be welcomed with open arms - leaving we who aren't insane as The Voice Of America.

Feel The Burn

"The men who pulled up in three white pickup trucks were looking for Patson Chipiro, head of the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district. His wife, Dadirai, told them he was in Harare but would be back later in the day, and the men departed.

An hour later they were back. They grabbed Mrs Chipiro and chopped off one of her hands and both her feet. Then they threw her into her hut, locked the door and threw a petrol bomb through the window."

-- Jan Raath, reporting on the second recent attack of this kind by Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwean thugs, for the Times Online