{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Heinous beliefs","title":"14: Burned Alive – The Witch Murders of South Africa","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1639,"description":"Burned Alive – The Witch Murders of South Africa\n\nHeinous Beliefs: Where Faith Meets Fear and Turns to Fire\n\nIn this chilling and emotional deep-dive, we expose a brutal truth that rarely makes headlines: people in modern-day South Africa mostly older women are still being accused of witchcraft and burned alive.\n\nYes, you read that right. This isn’t some ancient historical footnote from the 1600s. This is happening in the 2020s. Right now. In communities where fear, spiritual confusion, and poverty meet belief is still being used to justify murder.\n\nIn this episode, we cover:\n\n\n\n\nThe real-life case of Anna Feti a 58-year-old woman with epilepsy who was falsely accused of cursing two young men. Her own neighbors dragged her into the street and burned her alive. The police stood by and did nothing.\n\n\n\nHow culture, trauma, Christianity, colonialism, and traditional belief systems clash leaving vulnerable people in the crossfire.\n\n\n\nThe psychology of mob violence: how grief, fear, and projection turn people into killers.\n\n\n\nThe legal failure: outdated laws like South Africa’s Witchcraft Suppression Act of 1957 that criminalize witchcraft instead of protecting victims.\n\n\n\nThe silence of the state and media and how this global crisis gets erased by mainstream narratives.\n\n\n\nThe fact that this isn’t just a South Africa issue. Witch killings are still happening in Ghana, India, Papua New Guinea, Tanzania, and even in immigrant communities across the U.S. and Europe.\n\n\n\n\nThis episode is one of the heaviest we’ve done not only because of the horror of the crimes, but because of the silence that follows. No news coverage. No justice. No memorials. Just ashes.\n\nBut on Heinous Beliefs, we don’t do silence. We speak the truth, we say the names, and we ask the hard questions. Always.\n\nContent Warning\n This episode includes graphic descriptions of violence, death, elder abuse, and ideologically motivated murder. Listener discretion is strongly advised.\n\nWant to talk to me or...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ZjApH2K13_pM0Z0UyIWdDLBqxfcAYwKZRnvBM13-tHw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZWRk/YmIxNDg5MGYwMzcx/ZDVlOWIwNWM3YTdj/ZGExOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}