Daily Sun (October 24) - ONE RESIDENT said it was evil being performed in broad daylight, while another called it a disgrace. A third said it was a ritual to make money. But another resident had a better idea.
"THIS GIFT IS FROM HEAVEN. TONIGHT I'M HAVING ROAST CHICKEN FOR DINNER!"
Pedestrians walking along what's known as "Killer Road" in Nancefield, Soweto had never seen anything like the strange sight.
It seems that a stranger - a man that nobody knows - saw people approaching, dropped his valuable possessions and disappeared.
What he left behind included green, yellow and blue candles, Boxer tobacco, umqombothi, muthi and R3 000 in cold, hard cash!
He also left behind a healthy chicken, blinged up in beads and a black and red doek!
The resident who arrived at the scene first said there were R200 notes lying all over the place.
"I couldn't believe my eyes. I wanted to take the money but I was scared," he said.
But if he was scared, others didn't waste the opportunity.
"Within a few minutes people came running and took the money," he said.
Resident Thabile Matla told Daily Sun she is shocked.
"Such rituals are done at night by evil people. The person who did this got it wrong," said Thabile.
"His evil has turned against him. He thinks it's night time when it is actually daytime."
Resident Sizakele Makhoba said the chicken didn't move.
"It was hiding a bottle of umqombothi," she said.
"Perhaps this is the beginning of the end of the world."
She said five months ago they found a snake in Nancefield that crawled around a neighbour's shack for three days.
"Residents were terrified until the snake decided to move towards the Nancefield Dam," she said.
Sam Khoza, clearly a practical man, didn't worry too much about the evil.
"I'm going to slaughter the chicken," he told Daily Sun.
"Nothing happened to the people who took the money and I'm going to take off the beads and the doek and slaughter it. We are going to have nice roast chicken for dinner."
Daily Sun sangoma Ntsimb'edlezinye Ngema said the sangoma who left the chicken has evil animals.
"He uses them to do bad things and he wants the power to kill innocent people," he said.
He said yellow candles meant the person hates peace and the red candles meant danger.
"The chicken was going to be slaughtered to feed his evil animals," he said.
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