adminWILL we ever learn about the negative effects of looking for quick money?
What is driving people to engage in these spine-chilling rituals?
Is it laziness or simply the love for posh lifestyles?
These are some of the questions on many people’s lips.
It’ now evident that some people no longer want to work hard in life as they are chasing after easy money.
What is scary is that many women are now participating in these rituals.
In most cases, which we have published in this newspaper involving fortune hunters performing quick money rituals, it has ended in tears.
A growing number of women have been raped, indecently assaulted and even stripped of their dignity.
It’s sad when some of our sisters and mothers are joining such cults as Manjuzu in anticipation of quick money.
For years, women were known to be hard workers who used to fend for their families.
African women were known to be innovative and not desperate fortune hunters.
Ritual money has proved costly to most women who ended up being abused by those initiating them into these rituals.
Most of the perpetrators of this form of abuse are self-styled prophets and fake sangomas who are desperate to milk their victims.
On June 1, we carried a spine-chilling story about a Harare woman whose love for quick money ended in sorrow.
The woman spent the night at a local cemetery, naked, as part of the ritual process.
Allegations are that she was repeatedly raped by the sangoma, as part of the rituals.
After sexually assaulting the woman the first time, the sangoma would demand more sex, as part of the rituals.
He insisted, according to court documents, that it was necessary for the magic to work.
The victim was also made to believe that the sangoma’s semen, and her vaginal fluids, were supposed to be mixed to ensure the practice works wonders.
The sangoma has since been arrested, and has been remanded out of custody to July 12, for trial commencement.
As the woman awaits justice, her case should come as a lesson to others chasing quick money.
There is no justification whatsoever for sangomas and self-styled prophets to continue preying on desperate people.
There are genuine fears that there are more women who have fallen for these evil tricks from a number of sangomas.
It’s high time women, who have suffered such abuse, open up and expose these sex predators, who are preying on them.
This level of abuse is totally unacceptable at a time when the Government is empowering people with self-reliant projects.
A number of organisations have been asking for proposals from women who want to start businesses to come forward.
People should never be driven by lust to the extent of chasing quick money, through these rituals, given this has left many people counting losses.
Men have also been victims of such ritual money practices.
No matter how poor one is, there is no need for people to stoop so low to the extent of selling their souls for a song.
Mathew Masinge
Online Reporter