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May 13, 2013

Swaziland makes it illegal for a witch to fly a broomstick above 150m


Witches flying broomsticks in Swaziland above 150 metres will be subject to arrest and a hefty fine of R500 000, civil aviation authorities said, according to a report.

Witches’ broomsticks are considered similar to any heavier-than-air transportation device that is airborne, says The Star.

“A witch on a broomstick should not fly above the [150-metre] limit,” Civil Aviation Authority marketing and corporate affairs director Sabelo Dlamini said to the newspaper yesterday.
No penalties exist for witches flying below 150 metres.
The report said it was hard to say how serious he was, but witchcraft isn’t a joking matter in Swaziland, where the people believe in it.
The statute also forbids toy helicopters and children’s kites from ascending too high into the country’s airspace.
Dlamini was asked by the Swazi press to explain the country’s aviation laws following the arrest of a private detective, Hunter Shongwe, for operating a toy helicopter equipped with a video camera, of which he boasted using to gather surveillance information similar to the way a drone aircraft operates.
The detective was charged with operating an unregistered aircraft and for failing to appear before his chief to be questioned by traditional authorities about his toy drone, the first of its kind in Swaziland.
Swazi brooms are short bundles of sticks tied together and do not have handles. Swazi witches are known to use them to fling potions about homesteads – but not for transport.

16 comments:

  1. what about flying carpets, how high are they allowed to fly?

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  2. Africans...that is all.

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  3. Do Pegasi have any restrictions?

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  4. What about the Cessna over Quincy, MA?

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  5. These people are our equals!

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    1. You are an ignorant, uneducated bigot. How could you dare to possibly demean these poor people for their beliefs? I weep for society and its racist old white men who are destroying this beautiful planet.

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    2. No, you are an ignorant, uneducated bigot who chooses to believe in stereotypes that white people are responsible for everything that is wrong with this planet.

      How dare you insult a poster because they hold a different view to you.

      FACTS of this story are that Swaziland have made it illegal for a witch to fly a broomstick above 150m -whether you like it or not.

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  6. When something is believed in implicitly and unquestioningly by enough people in the same place, then to all intents and purpose, it might just as well be true. :-/

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  7. I live in South Africa (White immigrant)
    Witchcraft belief is alive and well.
    People are regularly killed, by stoning or being burnt to death in their homes, accused of witchcraft.
    Many Africans still sleep with the beds stood on bricks or paint tins so that the 'Tokoloshe' (small demon/imp) won't get them while they sleep.
    The same people that vote in the idiot politicians to run the country

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    1. And I suppose you also believe in people walking on water, rising from the dead and that the position of the sun and planets at birth controls your destiny.

      The same people who supported the witch Thatcher

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  8. police drones chase flying pressure cooker across Mexican boarder smuggling drugs. clearly the cooker was under a lot of pressure

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  9. It's all mind control, misusing their believes(religion). Look at the masses in the western world who has been misguided by their own believes and institutionalised religions? Are we better than Africans. Are our religions better? We believe in more stupid things than Africans do.

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  10. I guess Swaziland;s Quidditch team is going to have a difficult time practicing for the next Quidditch World Cup

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  11. Negroes are the morons of the world and everyone knows it.

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    1. Thanks to this article, you should know it without ever even having to have met one.

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  12. I cannot believe there are so many narrow-minded racists out there! Fools, open your minds! Forget racist stereotypes and treat every person as an individual.

    I can show you several areas where 'white' people have similarly dumb ideas. Propaganda rules in our present day society. Feed people lies enough times and they become 'truths' in the general perception.

    Before you try to take the speck of sawdust out of your brother's eye, take the forest out of your own.

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