[Pressportal.co.za] The Progressive Pagan Alliance today announced that they willingly renounce the words "witch" and "witchcraft" in the interests of National Unity. 

The Progressive Pagan Alliance (the PPA) represents a group of Eurocentric Pagan Organisations within South Africa who venerate their Ancestral rreligions.

In the interest of South African unity, the PPA member organisations willingly release the English words "witch" and "witchcraft" to describe ourselves and our practices. We understand that these words have contributed to centuries of colonialism and repression for the vast majority of South Africans who find these words offensive. Furthermore, the PPA calls on all South African Pagans to do the same.

The PPA also calls on Government to recognize Pagan religions as legitimate in South Africa and grant all rights and equalities that go along with legitimate religious practices to Pagans; such as the right to perform chaplain services, legal marriages and other rites of passage as prescribed and observed in our religions.

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Adrian Williams
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