ISICHITHO: MODERN WOMEN COURTING SYSTEM When the funds are low, debts are pilling up. When your love life is daunting and friends are few. When your colleagues become foe- leagues. Your luck has finally run out. Failure has become success turned upside down. Uyisichitho in the making. People can be very petty I tell you. Instead of upping their game and improving themselves they will use isichitho to lower you. Not that burning out your candle makes their candle burn brighter, but their candle will burn whilst yours is off. What is isichitho you might ask… I didn’t know either until I came to Cape Town. God, did I have sleepless nights scratching invisible insects crawling on my face. Isichitho is a human made curse to breakup your relationships or make you unattractive. Mainly used by females against each other. It’s very common amongst the African community. When you have isichitho, people become irritated when they look or think about you. There a
