Mzansi Actors that are Proudly Sangomas( Traditional Healers) – Real Life
According to Encyclopedia Britannica, “A Sangoma is a highly respected healer among the Zulu people of South Africa who diagnoses, prescribes, and often performs the rituals to heal a person physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually. The sangoma may address all of these realms in the healing process, which usually involves divination, herbal medicine, and specifically customized rituals to cure illness and restore well-being” it reads.
An individual who is called to be a sangoma must be called by spirit. The calling, ukuthwasa, denotes an ancestral and cultural responsibility and is initiated usually by an illness, which is accompanied by strange dreams and visions. This disruption in the daily life of the person causes him or her to seek the services of various healers.
Because of the availability of Western medicine in South Africa, many individuals who are called, often try in vain to be cured by modern medicine before ending up with a sangoma who can correctly identify ukutwasa. This identification begins an initiation period, which can last from months to years depending on the circumstances.
A couple of South African celebrities were also called by their ancestors and being an African who believes in his or her ancestors – they accepted and embraced their ancestral callings to become sangomas, (traditional healers).
1. Baby Cele
Baby Cele Maloka is a South African actress born in Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal.
Uzalo Actress Baby Cele (Gabisile) Has An Ancestral Calling
2. Dineo Langa
Television Presenter, and Actress, she got her diploma from the National School of the Arts (NSA) and also attended her New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York.
Dineo and Solo Langa open up about how they became sangomas – Sa411
3.Shoki Mmola
Shoki Sebotsane is a South African actress most famous for acting as Celia Kunutu the mother and stepmother of Rachel Kunutu and Nimrod Kunutu respectively in the soap, Skeem Saam. Legal cases Shoki has been abused by her husband Sello Sebotsane several times until she finally came out public to confirm the rumours.
4.Noninzi Williams
~ Is a South African playwright and actress best known to television audiences for her role as Rose Thwala in the SABC1 drama series Mtunzini , from 2006-2009.
She plays the character of Cuba in e.tv soapie Rhythm City.
5. Kelly Khumalo
Kelly Khumalo is a South African singer, actress and dancer. Khumalo is from Spruitview in the East Rand.
6. Letoya Makhene
Letoya Makhene is a South African actress, singer and TV personality.
7. Dawn Thandeka King
Dawn Thandeka King is a South African actress, musician and motivational speaker from Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal.
8. Bongani Masondo
Is a South African actor best known for his starring role as Bafana “Prince” Shabalala in the SABC1 drama series Tshisa, from 2006-2012. Tshisa was his debut television appearance.
He is also known as BabyMaker/Mangaliso in Skeem Saam.