 South African government legalize witchcraft. Good news, the nation got even cooler this week following the updates about the criminal code to remove laws outlawing witchcraft, fortune-telling, and dueling. Potential new fortune, you are going to get yourself stabbed to death in a duel. The archaic laws have been on the books for years, and have mostly been invoked in recent years when people claiming magical powers managed to build tens of thousands of dollars out of their fellow citizens in exchange for their mystical prowess. Some would sadly, the repeal of the magic and swordplay laws was less about transforming South Africa into a more polite version African, and more about getting rid of redundancy not to mention religious and sexist prejudices. Use magic to rip people off and don't care, LL people are already pretty rigorously covered under the country's fraud and murder statutes, and the witchcraft laws, especially, were often used to unfairly target women and practitioners of Sangomas. South African pagans have apparently been trying for some time to get the overly specific prohibitions off the country's books.