A WILDLIFE Ranger at the Department of National Parks and Wildlife has told the Lusaka Magistrates’ Court that he disposed of a live Sub-Saharan chameleon which was in the possession of a Mozambican traditional doctor and a Zambian national. Bright Nkhoma of Lusaka’s Lilayi area narrated that he took the live chameleon to a rehabilitation centre at Munda Wanga. This is in a matter in which a Mozambican traditional doctor, Jasten Mabulesse Candunde and a Zambian from Sinda District, Eastern Province, Leonard Phiri, are charged with professing knowledge of witchcraft contrary to Section 5 of the Witchcraft Act Chapter 90 of the Laws of Zambia. It is alleged that Phiri and Candunde, between November 22 and 24, 2024, jointly and...
