{"id":6859,"date":"2012-01-26T18:19:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T18:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=6859"},"modified":"2012-01-26T18:19:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T18:19:22","slug":"members-of-gule-wamkulu-attack-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/26\/members-of-gule-wamkulu-attack-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Members of Gule Wamkulu Attack Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/gulewamkulu_top.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6861\" title=\"gulewamkulu_top\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/gulewamkulu_top.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>KASUNGU:\u00a0Members of Gule Wamkulu were reported as causing disturbance at Mphommwa Community Day Secondary School.<\/p>\n<p>Kasungu police senior assistant commissioner John Nyondo said Gule Wankulu cult members were allegedly throwing stones at the students.<\/p>\n<p>Police have three Gule Wamkulu teenagers in custody for the alleged incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree masked teenagers in Gule Wamkulu regalia stormed the school\u00a0and started throwing stones at students at the campus,\u201d said Nyondo.<br \/>\nSome of the male students from the school attacked them and arrested them.<br \/>\n&#8220;The students handed over the three members of Gule Wamkulu to Mphomwa community policing,&#8221; said Nyondo.<\/p>\n<p>Police have identified the suspects as Yeremia Mwale, 17, and Chinsinsi Nyirenda,15, of Chindevu village and Temwa Nyirenda,15, of Mkulama village.<\/p>\n<p>They are all charged with breach of peace.<\/p>\n<p>Nyondo has advised people not to abuse customs to infringe\u00a0on people&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>In Chewa tradition, Gule Wamkulu is highly respected as they claim is an ancestral dance.<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, other members of Gule Wamkulu came into conflict with health workers affecting operations at Bua Health Centre in Kasungu.<\/p>\n<p>Few weeks ago some members of Gule Wamkulu in Ntchisi were arrested for allegedly kidnapping and attacking three girls. The Gule Wamkulu members claimed that it was a part of an initiation ceremony.\u2014<strong>Zodiak\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KASUNGU:\u00a0Members of Gule Wamkulu were reported as causing disturbance at Mphommwa Community Day Secondary School. Kasungu police senior assistant commissioner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[1096,1478,205,1453],"class_list":["post-6859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-gule","tag-gule-wamkulu","tag-students","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}