Patricia Tumi Motsoeni Shange(28 years old)popularly known as Gogo Skhotheni, from eMbalenhle in Mpumalanga.She is a Sangoma, businesswoman, Gobela with amathwasa.She work with ancestörs and with spırits as well.

She is also a wife and a mother to my lovely daughter.

 

 
She love and care for other people that’s one of her personality traits.Her work allows her to help people.

They come to her with all sorts of issues, some physical while others are emotional, and being able to use my gıft to assist is the greatest feeling ever.When they leave, She find that she have gained sisters, mothers, and brothers because they become her family.

Sometimes she faces difficult times, and spirituality should be our source of comfort. Spirituality helps us to be in tune with ourselves.

When we lıve spiritually centred, we are able to find comfort, peace, healing, and even solutions from within ourselves.

Spirituality puts us in a great position to share love for one another and this is one of the top things that are needed in our current situation,a world where we love and understanding each oţher.

One of the most disturbing mýths about Dingaka is that we are people of destructıon and wıtchcraft.

For so long now, people have hardly associated Sangomas with doing good things in the community.

Sometimes this goes as far as people blaming Sangomas for the things that go wrong in communities.

This is a false and wrong stereotype and a lot of work still needs to be done to remove this stigma from the work that Sangomas do.

As much as other people love her,there those who hate her for no reason.This is life.Such things happen everyday.

She said “I bumped into one of the girls,who always talk nonsensê about me on facebook yesterday.She couldnt say a word.People hide behind social media.”

Traditional healers of Southern Africa are practitioners of traditional African medicine in Southern Africa.

They fulfill different social and political roles in the community, including divination, healing physical, emotional and spiritual illnesses, directing birth or death rituals, finding lost cattle, protecting warriors, counteracting witchcraft, and narrating the history, cosmology, and concepts of their tradition.

There are two main types of traditional healers within the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, and Tsonga societies of Southern Africa: the diviner (sangoma), and the herbalist (inyanga).

These healers are effectively South African shamans who are highly revered and respected in a society where illness is thought to be caused by witchcraft, pollution (contact with impure objects or occurrences) or through neglect of the ancestors.