'My son needs a mental doctor,' says Chigwedere

Former Education minister Aeneas Chigwedere has come out guns blazing and denied accusations of practising witchcraft, while dismissing his son Mangwiza as a mental patient who needs psychiatric help.

Defending a lawsuit brought before the Harare Magistrates' Courts, Chigwedere and his wife, Emilia Zharare, denied the allegations raised by his son and further challenged the jurisdiction of the magistrates' court in handling the matter.

Chigwedere said the matter, in which he is accused of possessing goblins that are alleged to have killed a number of the Chigwedere clan members and causing women in the family not to get married or fail to conceive children, was frivolous and a waste of the court's time.