The Plight of Mozambique's Elderly
While old age is usually associated with wisdom, it is quite the contrary in Mozambique where the elderly are left to sink into abject poverty with little or no allowances, labelled witches and treated with utter disrespect.
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Mozambique: How the Country of the Young Is Failing Its Elderly
Inter Press Service, 20 September 2012
Carolina Poalo strikes the dry earth over and over with her hoe, her frail body bent almost double. She is determined to begin planting. During the long, dry season in Mozambique, ... read more »
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Mozambique: Prime Minister Condemns Violence Against the Elderly
Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique, 12 September 2012
Mozambican Prime Minister Aires Ali on Wednesday strongly condemned all forms of violence and abuse directed against elderly people, which he regarded as an affront to Mozambican ... read more »
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Mozambique: Don't Accuse the Elderly of Witchcraft
Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique, 30 August 2012
Mozambique's first lady, Maria da Luz Guebuza, has urged society to value its elderly citizens, and not to succumb to claims that they are witches. read more »
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Mozambique: Elderly Killed Over Witchcraft Allegations
Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique, 17 June 2012
At least 20 elderly people were killed in Mozambique between 2010 and 2011 over witchcraft allegations, and many others were physically, sexually psychologically abused and ... read more »
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Mozambique: Welfare Minister Demands Respect for Elderly
Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique, 23 April 2012
Mozambique's Minister of Women's Affairs and Social Welfare, Iolanda Cintura, on Sunday said it was intolerable that elderly people are being accused of witchcraft, beaten and ... read more »
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Mozambique: Discrimination in Benefits for Elderly Denied
Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique, 16 November 2011
Allowances for elderly Mozambicans are allocated on a political basis, opposition parliamentarians claimed on Wednesday, while the government retorted that the criteria used are ... read more »
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Mozambique: Over 20 Elderly People Killed Over Witchcraft Claims
Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique, 11 October 2011
Over 20 elderly people have been murdered this year in Mozambique as a result of their alleged involvement in witchcraft. read more »
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Mozambique: Guebuza Attacks Superstition
Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique, 1 June 2011
Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Tuesday attacked the superstition which leads some people to abandon their own elderly parents, accusing them of witchcraft. read more »
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Africa: Denied the Right to a Dignified Life (opinion)
Fahamu, 26 June 2009
Traditionally African culture dictated that elderly citizens be treated with respect, writes Anushka Sehmi, but as economic constraints erode the extended family system and fuel ... read more »
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This of course is the undermining of African cultures and the introduction of thier christianity which sees nothing but selfishness and the rejection of ones own great tarditions that have been kept alive by our fore parents who had to brave the bullyism the domination of a people who wanted the souls of the people they colonised. Unless African youths become truly educated and look at the past to rebuild thier glorious future they will falter; to think that when we are told that 55 and 60 are yeras to die when we nromally ;lived inot our hundreds producing children in our hundreds we must think again. Lte me tell you something that bible was severely tampered with you must know that Africans who lived off the fertile soil and ate some of the earthe most nourishing foods had some of the earths most complete dieats lived and exceeded all lengths of life we lived well inot our and oiver the 100s. Africans sustained life on thiw palnet for al;l humanity as we know it today so do not undersell yoyrselves the youths need to get a rethink on thier failure to provide all things needed for thier parents. They need to stop this westernised form of thinking it is not productive it is a failure in all levels. Africans need to coemtogeteher redeucate the childrena with morality love forself love for land love for soil love for what we have been given with far insight from the" CREATOR OF ALL THE UNIVERSIES" The idea of this GREAT GOD is not new to Africa, we had ISLAM AND ISRAEL , whe we were forced to adapt christianity some rejected thsi with such vehemece that they decided to practice which craft and these practices that have seemed to have been the way. Again I will remind Af5rica that circumcision adn many of African practices that is in every part of Africa shows that Africa wa once one and they all had similar cultures and tradtiosn so do not be fooled into the brianwashing of the whites. ISLAM is an African religionas was ISRAEL. We will not confuse what I say with the imeprsonaters who inhabit IRUSALEMand have spoken as if they are truly those of the righteouss people who wered riven from ISRAEL by the Romans . Rome then palced thier practitioners in the temples parcting thier wicth craft thier devilw orship ths was why CHRIST fought against these guys overturning their tables which was set up for gambling an money laundering and lending as we saw the Vatican invovled with thruout thier whole existence. We see this zionist regime today whom are racist murderers nuclear and biological powers inthe region, they present a clear threat to all the region they do not feel safe because they are pretending to be whom they are not> We look south and we see the children of ISRAEL thruout Africa and the western nations, those whom wer sold into slavery or captured by the barbarians. See African cultures that werte ruled out and systematicaly destroyed by whites and you will see the children of ISRAEL and all thier glory. We need to WAKE UP AS AFRICANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!