Minister of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare Jean Sendeza has bemoaned rising cases of violence against the elderly, saying government has formulated the Elderly Persons Bill to address the vice. Speaking in Lilongwe yesterday when she presided over the World Elder Abuse Awarenesses Day, the minister said between January and June this year, 10
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Mobs have killed six elderly persons and injured 40 more between January and March this year over witchcraft suspicions, The Nation has learnt. The figures, released by the Malawi Network of Order Persons’ Organisations (Manepo), show the worsening and unchecked abuse of elderly persons in the country on the back of an ineffective century old
Virginia Simiyone, whose age she does not know, but comes from Mulima Village in Traditional Authority (T/A) Mabuka in Mulanje, is worried. As an old woman, she feels insecure. The elderly are being killed on allegations that they are practising witchcraft thus killing young men and women in the villages. “What worries me is that