sangoma

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.

StarTribune.com rss feed 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.

Thestar.com - Home Page 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.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

The parents told AFP that the spells of the "sangoma" witchdoctors to bring the children back will fail if the bodies are interred.

ANC Daily News Briefing 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.

Daily News & Analysis 2010

Mashabela, a senior "sangoma" has also displayed a poster that reads "My friend with AIDS is still my friend.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2004

Her mother was a Swazi sangoma and her father, who died when she was six, was a Xhosa.

miriam makeba | mama afrika « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

*The school starts with the circumcision that is done by a traditional healer or a sangoma.

Initiation School 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.

Archive 2009-08-01 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.

That Blue Sky Megan aka Mmapula Reamogetse 2009