THE WITCHCRAFT ACT, CAP 18, LAWS OF TANZANIA
"witchcraft" includes sorcery, enchantment, bewitching, the use of
instrument of witchcraft, the purported exercise of any occult power
and the purported possession of any occult knowledge.
3. Any person who
(a) by his statements or actions represents himself to have the
power of witchcraft;
(b) makes, uses, has in his possession or represents himself to
possess any instruments of witchcraft;
(c) supplies to any other person any instrument of witchcraft;
(d) advises any other person upon the use of witchcraft or any
instrument of witchcraft; or
(e) threatens to use or resorts to the use of witchcraft or any
instrument of witchcraft upon or against any person or
property,
commits an offence under this Act.
5.-(1) Any person who commits an offence under this Act with
intent to cause death, disease, injury, or misfortune to any community, class
of persons, person, or animal, or to cause injury to any property shall be
liable to imprisonment not less than seven years.
(2) Any person who commits an offence under this Act without any
intent such as is described in subsection (1) of this section shall be liable to
a fine of not less than one hundred thousand shillings or imprisonment of
not less than five years.