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LONDON - An African witch doctor with a mission to track down and reclaim the head of a long dead king arrives in Scotland this…

LONDON - An African witch doctor with a mission to track down and reclaim the head of a long dead king arrives in Scotland this week. Chief Nicholas Gcaleka, a South African witch doctor, plans to spend up to a week in Scotland looking for the head of his great, great uncle, King Hintsa, killed by a British soldier in the Eastern Cape in 1835.

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