{"id":5068,"date":"2024-10-16T08:30:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T08:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=5068"},"modified":"2024-10-16T08:30:28","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T08:30:28","slug":"herbalist-dies-after-drinking-concoction-to-enhance-her-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=5068","title":{"rendered":"Herbalist Dies After Drinking Concoction to Enhance Her Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Crimes and Courts Correspondent<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tragedy struck in Chipazi village, Dotito, during a traditional cleansing ceremony when renowned herbalist Emily Chiduwa, 67, died after consuming a concoction prepared by 23-year-old sangoma Dorica Masunungure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I can confirm that Emily Chiduwa died after consuming a concoction made from fermented local tobacco,&#8221; said Provincial police spokesperson, Sergeant Major Samuel Chikasha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chiduwa sought Masunungure&#8217;s services to enhance her healing powers. Masunungure prepared the concoction by boiling the tobacco in a clay pot and administered it to Chiduwa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;After consuming the concoction, Chiduwa started vomiting and soiling herself\u2026 her condition deteriorated, and she was rushed to Mt Darwin Hospital, where she died,&#8221; Sergeant Major Chikasha added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Masunungure faces culpable homicide charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crimes and Courts Correspondent Tragedy struck in Chipazi village, Dotito, during a traditional cleansing ceremony when renowned herbalist Emily Chiduwa, 67, died after consuming a concoction prepared by 23-year-old sangoma&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-and-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5070,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5068\/revisions\/5070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}