Classes were temporarily suspended today at Mpingwe Primary School in village headman Nkhukuteni’s area, Traditional Authority, Machinjiri in Blantyre after a female teacher allegedly found a talisman (Chithumwa) besides her bag.

The learners who accused the teacher of practising witchcraft, went on rampage pelting stones at some infrastructure, including the school’s kitchen where they vandalised pots containing porridge, before armed law enforcers rushed to the area where they fired teargas and calm was restored moments later.

According to Esme Misasa, a cleaner at the school, the teacher oversees the school’s feeding program and some people around the school are accusing her of mismanaging the program and they want her transferred from the school.

Source: ZODIAK