Hichilema Urges Africans to Abandon Witchcraft Beliefs and Embrace Science
President Hakainde Hichilema has called on Africans to move away from traditional beliefs in witchcraft, stressing that such practices undermine progress and discourage people from embracing scientific solutions such as vaccination.
Speaking on the subject, the Head of State noted that misplaced beliefs consume valuable time and energy that should be directed toward development and problem-solving.
“I want to urge Africans to move away from these beliefs in witchcraft, which in turn reduce the utilization of vaccines and scientific solutions. These things take a lot of our brains, time, and intellectual grey matter, and we end up walking away from real solutions,” President Hichilema said.
The President highlighted that even in politics, irrational reliance on superstitious beliefs has been used as a tool of manipulation.
“I can tell you from politics, even within our own political party, we won elections against those who received a lot of so-called medical support in witchcraft, even at national level. Yet our focus should never be on superstition, but on real, lasting solutions for our people,” he added.
©️ KUMWESU | August 26, 2025
Laughable, isn’t it? Why then have two individuals then been taken to court on suspicion of plotting to bewitch the President using a chameleon?
He is saying we should move away from that, it’s a process that he can’t do alone, in short he is also saying that those two should not have engaged in that act to solve their problems by plotting to eliminate him, instead they should have used their brain wisely as he is encouraging everyone.
Show me the person who believes in Witchcraft and I will show you the one who has arrested a
Chameleon, and keeping it in solitary confinement accused of being an agent of Wichcraft…and his Chief Justice is showing the Trial of the Chameleon on Public TV.
Allow the animal to go back into the Wild… Keeping the Innocent Animal in solitary confinement is cruelty … That’s the science I know!