Thomas Heathfield was a well-paid banking consultant with a promising career in Maidenhead, England, but gave it up this year to move to South Africa and endure rigorous training as a "sangoma" - or witch doctor. ❋ Unknown (2011)
A sangoma is a learned practitioner of traditional African mysticism and soothsaying, healer and spiritualist, a medium between the physical world and the otherworldly dimension of ancestors. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"We are happy that the country is recognizing us," says Gaobepe, who describes herself as a "sangoma", a healer whose distinctiveness lies in her spiritual link with the ancestors. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The parents told AFP that the spells of the "sangoma" witchdoctors to bring the children back will fail if the bodies are interred. ❋ Unknown (1995)
But in Africa, where mysticism and magic play a part in many people's lives, pronouncements from a '' sangoma '' such as Nsukwini can carry as much weight as those from governments, especially when it comes to the murky world of security agencies. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Mashabela, a senior "sangoma" has also displayed a poster that reads "My friend with AIDS is still my friend. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Her mother was a Swazi sangoma and her father, who died when she was six, was a Xhosa. ❋ Unknown (2008)
*The school starts with the circumcision that is done by a traditional healer or a sangoma. ❋ Megan Aka Mmapula Reamogetse (2009)
She had gone to a sangoma traditional healer when she started feeling sick and he had told her that she was too sick for his help. ❋ Megan Aka Mmapula Reamogetse (2009)
And here I am with the sangoma traditional healer and our translator. ❋ Megan Aka Mmapula Reamogetse (2009)
Ngoveni owned the salon, which has since been demolished, and Zulu is a sangoma... ❋ Christopher (2008)
A 35-year-old man who claims to be a sangoma from Folweni, outside Durban, made his first appearance in court on Monday in connection with the alleged rape and indecent assault of two teenage boys. ❋ Christopher (2008)
According to Wikipedia, her mother was a Swazi sangoma and her father, who died when she was six, was a Xhosa. ❋ Unknown (2008)
She was born March 4, 1932 under apartheid, the daughter of a Xhosa father and a Swazi mother, who was said to have been a sangoma (or mystic). ❋ Unknown (2008)
"Some get under family or sangoma (faith healer) influence when they go back to their rural areas ... because the minister said on television that ARVs are bad," she said, referring to Health Minister Manto ❋ Unknown (2007)
that [lady] is a sangoma, so not [trust] her [medication]. ❋ Jonathan Peter Andrews (2021)