adminMichael Magoronga Midlands Correspondent
Traditional leaders in the Midlands Province have been warned against engaging the services of traditional healers popularly known as tsikamutandas, who are notorious for fleecing unsuspecting villagers of their cattle and other valuables.
Speaking on the sidelines of a Midlands Traditional Leaders Day commemorations at 5 Infantry Brigade recently, Midlands Province Chiefs’ Council president Chief Zama Ngungumbane, who is also National Chiefs’ Council deputy president, said reports of tsikamutandas fleecing villagers were disturbing.
“The issue of tsikamutandas is a topical and disturbing issue in the province and the country as a whole,” he said.
“We have been receiving reports of chiefs who are working in cahoots with the traditional leaders. As a provincial assembly, we have made a resolution that no chief should be seen dealing with tsikamutandas.
“It is rather unfortunate that we have been receiving reports of chiefs who are allowing these traditional healers to fleece villagers of their cattle and other valuable possessions. Let this be a warning to the traditional leaders against such practices. That should stop immediately.”
Senator Chief Ngungumbane said chiefs should be protecting their subjects.
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