Fake Zim healers nabbed in thokolosi scam :: Mmegi Online

Three Zimbabweans have been dragged before the Broadhurst Magistrate Court for allegedly masquerading as traditional healers. They are alleged to have planted a dead baboon in a woman’s yard and then charged her P1,000 claiming their powers had “discovered” and removed it.

The trio is facing two counts of attempting to obtain by false pretences as well as entering Botswana through an un-gazetted point.

Prosecutors say Gift Chihwayi (27), Phillip Rusari (39) and Emmanuel Chihwayi (42) all residing at Rasoko ward, Gabane village, acted in consent on October 13, 2017 at Phiring location in Gaborone to try and obtain the sum of P1,000 from Linet Mmali David by falsely pretending that they were traditional doctors. The three told David that they had removed a thokolosi from her house, which prosecutors say they knew was false as they had planted the dead baboon.

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