Friday, June 06, 2008

Curse me if you dare - Botswana Guardian

Readers of local newspapers will perhaps have come across a strange advertisement from the so-called Lord Jaffa. His ad offers a range of paranormal services that can help us with our problems and he claims “no problem too big”. He offers “genuine talisman” (shouldn’t that be talismen?), occult books and can tell our fortunes. He can also teach us yoga, astral projection and “mystic science”. Wow, impressive, don’t you think?

For now I’m going to ignore the fact that fortune telling is ILLEGAL in Botswana. Someone else can tell him that.

Usually I think of all these psychic frauds as being rather old-fashioned and out of date but this guy has ventured into the information age and has his own web site and fascinating it is too. Take a look for yourself at www.lordjaffa.com. Go on, take a look and see if you can keep a straight face.

The web site explains how well-travelled and educated this crook is and his various memberships of august professional bodies such as the Associate Union of Mystics, the Universal School of Mysticism and the Illuminated Path Society. That last one isn’t very impressive, I’ve got one of those in my garden.

My reaction was a mixture of things. First was genuine amusement. How have I lived without his “Witchcraft Expeller Bath Mixture”, “Pow-Wow, Long Lust Good Luck Medicine” or his “Peaceful Home Oil” which offers protection from “Robbers and buglers”?

Then I got angry. Really very angry. Fuming, smoke coming out of the ears, swearing angry. This charlatan, this fraud, this crook offers a whole page of remedies to real medical problems. For R350 you get a cure for measles. For R500 you get his remedy for hypertension. For another R500 you get a malaria cure. For R550 you get “Kali Seeds” which apparently are “for treatment of cancer and prevention of cancer spread”. Near the end of the list is the scandalous, outrageous, criminal offer of a R750 treatment for AIDS.

I’ve said this before but if just one person stops taking their real medicine because of this man’s ridiculous products then he will have blood on his hands.

So I invite him to do two things. Firstly, Mr Jaffa, if you have genuinely scientific evidence that your products work, you think it is legal to market them in Botswana and you think that my comments are unreasonable then sue me for defamation. The Guardian will give you my contact details.

Secondly, if you really have the powers you claim then curse me. Give it your best, see if you can have some noticeable effect on me. Don’t try to bring about something generic like bad luck or a difficult week or killing me, make it something obvious and unlikely to happen by chance. Make me go bald. Turn my skin blue. Make all the flowers in my garden die overnight. If you have just a fraction of the powers you claim then any of those will be easy.

Of course if you can’t, we can just assume that you are what we all think you are.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

bloody heck, who is this SRI LORD Jaffa? He is Master of Arts and Herbology, bang what insitution awarded him that? He authored many books, none of which are indicated or up for sale at website. Well travelled, but does not refer to any of his trips helping ppl, nor are there pictures or testimonials (I know I'm pointing out to him how better refine his fraud)! hmm, and he has the Pow-wow...ke dumela e ka bolaya motho! Le gale. I just hope ppl dont fall into this silly trap.

Anonymous said...

I just realise the bloody bugger is not even worth my comments!

A few click on his website, you realise gore o rekisa melemo from all kinds of religions and believes. Agggggg...Juju, Christianity (we see a bible quote), Hinduism.... I would be surprised if he doesnt come from one country known for its scammers.

cynici said...

I sure am glad that Sri Lord Jaffa has made himself scarce from the local newspaper after the publication of this article on the Botswana Guardian.

Unknown said...

I really appreciate your courage to tell it as it is on the person called lordjaffa. For your information I did check his website registration and fornd that his name is Isaac Nnanna. He is hosted under e-mail isaac@gmhosting.com. Check it out - if you want to expose the man the do more research - and and gmhosting website who is the owner of the website and then you can confront him. contact me at ptheks208@yahoo.com for more

Unknown said...

my e-mail has changed from ptheks208@yahoo.com to ptheks208@gmail.com. Please contact me so that we can expose Lord Jaffa.