Tue, 17 Jan 2017 07:57:03 +0000 THE sporadic killing of elderly citizens by their close relatives on mere suspicion of practising witchcraft is a matter of great concern which must be addressed by Zambian society with the same vigour and intolerance we give to defilement and gender based violence. We cannot allow miscreants in our midst to wage a ruthless massacre of their parents and grandparents who sired them and brought them into the world, sometimes at great risk to their health, on the pretext that they were witches or wizards – something that no-one has ever proved in a court of law. The brutal murder of an 80-year-old woman in Chingola at the weekend who was axed to death and her body set ablaze, allegedly by her own grandson, is beyond reproach. It will requires a homicide psychologist to delve into the mind of a perpetrator of such violence to explain what drives a […]
