Witchcraft, power and politics: exploring the occult in the South African Lowveld

Introduction: exploring witchcraft, power and politics. Society, cosmology and the making of witchcraft -continuity and change in the history of Green Valley witches of the Lowveld and their familiars -conceptions of duality, power and desire witchcraft, cognates, affines and neighbours - the distribution of witchcraft accusations, 1960-1995 a witch has no horn - social tensions in the subjective reality of witchcraft witch-hunting and political legitimacy -chief, comrades and elimination of evil, 1930-1990 the ANC's dilemma - the symbolic politics of three witch-hunts in the 1990s conclusions - witchcraft and the post-colonial state.