adminBlessing Rwizi and Blessing GondokondoA MUTARE woman has exposed her fellow siblings, among them a man of cloth, as witches who are trying to lure her back into their underworld shenanigans. Constance Chapasura dragged Reverend Charles Chapasura, village head Everson Chapasura, Lovemore Chapasura and her sister, Enisia Chapasura among other unidentified family members, to court accusing them of forcing her to continue providing them with a venue for witchcraft practices at her house after repenting to be a Christian.
The parties appeared before Mutare magistrate, Mrs Annia Ndiraya.
Constance told the court that her family members used her place of residence for witchcraft practices ever since the death of their parents. She said since she was now a Christian, she did not want to be associated with the underworld activities.
“I am now a Christian and I do not want anything to do with these evil practices near my home. They should change their venue. I tried several times to plead with them to stay away from my home, but they have remained defiant. I have had enough of their pestering and the law should take its course now, Your Worship,” said Constance.
However, the court session degenerated into a free for all situation as the rest of the family members disputed the allegations levelled against them by their auntie.
“Your Worship, the house in which she is staying in belongs to our father. Our father told us that ‘something’ that was used by our ancestors was planted there for witchcraft practices. However, these ‘things’ are now hindering our family’s progress so we have to remove them first.
“Moreover, this is our usual meeting place for family functions, so kindly give us time to sort our things out. Ordering us to stay away from that house will kill us all, Your Worship. We were once a team in this witchcraft practice just the way our parents left us and how can she just wake up and turn her back on us like that?” said village head Everson.
Enisiah Chapasura who is an elder sister to the team added that the so-called “things” planted by their ancestors were causing many deaths within the family so they should make sure they were removed first.
Rev Charles Chapasura also disputed disturbing his sister’s peace or forcing her to practise witchcraft.
He told the court that: “There are traditional ‘things’ that we simply want to remove from our parents’ place. I am a man of cloth and there is no way I can force someone into witchcraft. I have tried several times to convince her not to bar the family from using the right procedure to get rid of the ‘things’ causing problems in the family, but in vain.”
He added that the family once approached the chief to solve the issues, but their sister had been the stumbling block.
“I even went to talk to her pastor to convince her to allow us to do our rituals traditionally. She is stubborn Your Worship,” added Rev Chapasura.
In her ruling, the court granted the order in Constance’s favour and told the Chapasura family that they should not infringe with her right to be in any church.
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