Pitsane inyangas to sniff out thugs
Monday, March 08, 2010
Kgosi Mompati Marumoloa on Friday summoned the villages' healers and assigned each to a crime busting cluster. He hopes that the thugs will not be a match for the duo of tradition and modern technology. Last week, the village chief. The chief initially called the inyangas two weeks back, following reports that some thugs were bragging about how they were fortified from police and the courts by some inyanga. The meeting did not materials due to heavy rain. undaunted Kgosi Marumoloa convened the meeting again. This time, traditional doctors, seers and sangoma - about 20 came doctors and healers turned up. They will now be inducted into community policing clusters so that they can play a part in fighting crime.
The chief expalined to the healers that it was people's complaints that had compeled him to call them Crime is on the increase in the village and he is greatly worried by the rumours of what the healers are reported to be doing, he said.
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