Witches’ broomsticks are considered similar to any heavier-than-air transportation device, reports The Star.
“A
witch on a broomstick should not fly above the [150-metre] limit,”
Swaziland Civil Aviation Authority marketing and corporate affairs
director Sabelo Dlamini told the newspaper.
No penalties exist for witches flying below 150 metres.
The
report said it was hard to say how serious he was, but witchcraft isn’t
a joking matter in Swaziland, where the people believe in it.
The statute also forbids toy helicopters and children’s kites from ascending too high into the country’s airspace.
Dlamini
was asked by the Swazi press to explain the country’s aviation laws
following the arrest of a private detective, Hunter Shongwe, for
operating a toy helicopter equipped with a video camera, of which he
boasted using to gather surveillance information similar to the way a
drone aircraft operates.
The
detective was charged with operating an unregistered aircraft and for
failing to appear before his chief to be questioned by traditional
authorities about his toy drone, the first of its kind in Swaziland.
Swazi
brooms are short bundles of sticks tied together and do not have
handles. Swazi witches are known to use them to fling potions about
homesteads – but not for transport.
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