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This article explores witchcraft-related violence against elderly women in the AmaZizi Chiefdom of kwaZangashe in Eastern Cape, South Africa. The potential causes that have promoted such violence form the central subject of the study. The study includes a research design that combines questionnaires, focus groups and follow-on interviews. The findings have revealed a prevalence of witchcraft beliefs in the region, and have pointed to elderly women as the likely victims of witchcraft violence. This has resulted in AmaZizi’s elderly women being socially isolated, verbally abused, and at risk of physical violence and even murder. This study concludes with several interventions organised to combat future witchcraft-related violence and to support the elderly women in the Chiefdom.
Author(s): de Jong N, Jongisilo Pokwana ka Menziwa C
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: HTS Theological Studies
Year: 2022
Volume: 78
Issue: 3
Online publication date: 22/06/2022
Acceptance date: 07/01/2022
Date deposited: 10/01/2022
ISSN (print): 0259-9422
ISSN (electronic): 2072-8050
Publisher: AOSIS Publishing
URL: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v78i3.7108
DOI: 10.4102/hts.v78i3.7108
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/8qzp-rt19
Notes: This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Global Challenges Urgency Research Fund (AH/T012986/1) and by Newcastle University’s Global Challenges Academy.
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