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A South African teacher who was killed for opposing witchcraft has become the first person to be officially beatified by the Catholic Church in the African nation. Benedict Daswa was beaten to death by an angry mob in the village of Tshitanini, Limpopo, in 1990 after he had refused to pay a herbalist traditional leader, known as "inyanga", who promised to end destructive storms in the region after a lightning strike had burnt several huts.