Test rescheduled, traditional ceremony on its way following faintings and witchcraft accusations in Gondola

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Test rescheduled, traditional ceremony on its way following faintings and witchcraft accusations in Gondola

12:28 CAT | 06 Jul 2017

The Gondola district directorate of Education, Youth and Technology has rescheduled for next Saturday the provincial end of term philosophy exam cancelled last Monday at the Secondary School of Madzicuara because of some of the entrants fainting.

The date was announced yesterday afternoon by the district’s Director of Education, Youth and Technology of Gondola, Cesário Ngosme, after a meeting with parents and caregivers.

The director said that a traditional ceremony involving the Association of Traditional Doctors was being arranged in concert with local leaders. After the chaos on Monday, the tests of other disciplines were carried out smoothly yesterday, even though there one case of fainting did occur.

Faintings hinder quarterly test in Gondola

In Gondola district, Manica province, more than two thousand students from Nadzicuera Secondary School failed to sit their grade 11 and 12 philosophy test on Monday as a result of 15 students fainting.

Some guardians demonstrated in the school grounds, demanding a traditional ceremony, the transfer of the students to other educational institutions and the removal of the director of the school, whom they accuse of practicing witchcraft.

The director of the School, Felisberto Manyanga, refutes all the accusations.

“’Punch at will, kill as you wish!’ Saying that I brought things here is a lie, it’s not true. Look, somebody here is machinating for my shameful transfer and it’s happening, I’m already suffering here. This school when I came was ugly, no one wanted to work here. I worked, I built it up, it’s beautiful. Now that things are [working], they tried to manufacture ways to get me out. There were even names ready, [as people were saying] that I was going to leave.

“So when my exit did not happen, they began to invent names, [saying] that I went to the ‘curaneiro’ [traditional healer], I sowed things. That is not possible. The day you find a good ‘curandeiro’ [traditional healer], you will know what has happened here,” Manyanga said.

Source: Rádio Moçambique