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Act No. 3 of 1957.

Act

To provide for the suppression of the practice of witchcraft and similar practices.

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(English text signed by the Governor-General.)
(Assented to 19th February, 1957.)

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Be it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, as follows:—

Offences relating to the practice of witchcraft and similar practices.

1. Any person who—

(a)

imputes to any other person the use of supernatural means in causing any disease in or injury or damage to any person or thing, or who names or indicates any other person as a wizard;

(b)

employs or solicits any witch-doctor, witch-finder or any other person to name or indicate any person as a wizard;

(c)

professes a knowledge of witchcraft, or the use of charms, and who advises any person how to bewitch, injure or damage any person or thing, or who supplies any person with any pretended means of witchcraft;

(d)

on the advice of any witch-doctor, witch-finder or other person or on the ground of any pretended knowledge of witchcraft, uses or causes to be put into operation any means or process which, in accordance with such advice or his own belief, is calculated to injure or damage any person or thing;

(e)

for gain pretends to exercise or use any kind of supernatural power, witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration, or undertakes to tell fortunes, or pretends from his skill in or knowledge of any