Police have warned communities not to use open water for traditional ceremonies if they are unable to swim. This after two men‚ including a sangoma‚ drowned during a traditional ritual in the Free ...

The street was buzzing with festivities, and everyone was dressed for the occasion. Intricately beaded necklaces, distinct head wraps, Umbhaco skirts, faces painted with calamine lotion. Followed by ...

What: John Lockley leads a Blessing Ceremony followed by a five-weekend vision quest intensive, based in the indigenous South African tradition of Xhosa Sangoma. When: Thursday, May 29, 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Bare-foot, with rattles on his ankles and wearing a colourful beaded ceremonial skirt, a white boy with short blond hair makes shamanic-like dance moves to a frantic drum beat. Kyle Todd is a ...

L’vovo Derrango is set undergo a traditional ceremony next weekend in Durban. But the kwaito artist is shy to reveal whether it will be to undergo training as a sangoma. A recent report in Isolezwa ...

Multi-award-winning singer Kelly Khumalo recently addressed rumours that she is a sangoma. A sangoma is a traditional healer believed to have a connection with ancestral spirits. They are believed to ...

Many young Mozambicans have crossed into South Africa to develop their "ancestral" gift of healing. Kimberly Mutandiro spoke to some of them to find out what it is all about. Training to be a sangoma, ...