{"id":2427,"date":"2012-10-02T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T11:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2427"},"modified":"2012-10-02T11:21:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T11:21:08","slug":"my-witchdoctor-raped-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2427","title":{"rendered":"My witchdoctor raped me"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2428\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sangoma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2428\" title=\"sangoma\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sangoma-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sangoma-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sangoma.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Generic witchdoctor\/sangoma<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A sangoma from Soweto was arrested on Tuesday morning for allegedly raping a woman who had gone to him for healing, Gauteng police said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 50-year-old man invited the woman to his residence to carry out a cleansing ritual on Monday night because she believed she was cursed with bad luck, spokesman Captain Kay Makhubela said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;She was instructed to buy a white chicken and when she arrived with it&#8230; the chicken was killed and the blood was mixed with water and medication.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The sangoma then ordered the 37-year-old to take a bath in another room and not wear clothes after she was done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Then he went into the room and told her she was healed. All of a sudden, he was on top of her and he raped her,&#8221; said Makhubela.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man later threw the bath water out and said she was healed of the bad luck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A case of rape was opened. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sangoma from Soweto was arrested on Tuesday morning for allegedly raping a woman who had gone to him for healing, Gauteng police said. The 50-year-old man invited the woman to his residence to carry out a cleansing ritual on Monday night because she believed she was cursed with bad luck, spokesman Captain Kay Makhubela &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2427\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My witchdoctor raped me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1546,34,36,877,12250,757,1545],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-cleansing-ritual","tag-crime","tag-rape","tag-sangoma","tag-south-africa","tag-soweto","tag-witchdoctor"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sangoma.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2430,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions\/2430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}