A  Harare court heard that a man beat his wife for allegedly practising witchcraft and possessing goblins.
Fiona Murisa yesterday appeared before magistrate Mrs Marehwanazvo Gofa saying her husband, Callisto Mujera, who is a police officer, accuses her of possessing goblins which are blocking his success.
Murisa, who was seeking a protection order, claimed that Mujera has barred her relatives from visiting their matrimonial home, accusing them of being witches out to hurt him.
“He is my husband ,but he assaults me saying that I am a witch,”.
“He also rebukes me calling me all types of derogatory names such that I had to leave our matrimonial house because I could no longer stand his abuse. I want him to be barred from coming to my house because he will assault me again,” Murisa said.
Her husband, Mujera denied the allegations and told the court that Murisa was the one abusing him.
“She is lying before the court and I wish the court to grant a reciprocal protection order because she also abuses me,” he said.
She tries to turn my children against me, by telling them bad things.
“She tells our children that I am a promiscuous man. I cannot be banned from going to her house as she has told the court because she is living at a college where I am doing my studies,” Mujera said.
The magistrate ordered Mujera to stop abusing his wife and accusing her of witchcraft and possessing goblins as he does not have any evidence. –  State Media