{"id":3282,"date":"2007-09-05T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/two-south-african-women-are-bu.html"},"modified":"2007-09-05T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T18:18:00","slug":"two-south-african-women-are-bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/09\/two-south-african-women-are-bu.html","title":{"rendered":"Two South African women are burned as witches"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a shame this type of stuff<\/a> is still going on. I would have thought that South African was a little more enlightened than this.<\/p>\n

Two South African women have been burned to death after a group of students accused them of bewitching their high school with evil spirits.
\nMsaba Zungu and Thabitha Thusi, both 60, were seized from their homes near Manguzi in KwaZulu-Natal province.
\nStudents and adults dragged them to a sports field where they were doused with petrol and set alight on Sunday.
\nManhlenga High School pupils accused the women of being witches after they began to suffer strange crying fits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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