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This is an article, that was sent to me directly ,by the editor of ILanga newspaper. It appeared on 12-14 of September. After reading it, I took a liking and asked if I could use it on my blog. It is however written in Zulu because it is from a local newspaper. I share the same views and facts which are stated on this article and I would like all of you to also enjoy reading such a well written piece of work.

For those who are not fluent in Zulu, I can translate it for you at a later stage.

This article is about traditional healing and its categories...

Take note that on Monday 26th September, there will be another follow-up article on ILanga which will concentrate on Ukuthwasa.

"happy reading..."

ILANGA >> SEPTEMBER 12-14, 2011 NJENGOBA kule nyanga uMandulo

(September) kugujwa futhi kuqhakanjiswa amasiko namagugu eNingizimu

Afrika, kubalulekile ukuthi kubhekisiswe zonke izinto eziyinjula yesizwe ngalesi sikhathi.

U-ERIC NDIYANE, usihlaziyela enye yezinkolo ezindala e-Afrika, ikakhulukazi ezizweni ezidabuka emachibini asenkabanzwe. PHAKATHI kwezinkolo ezindala emlandweni wabamnyama kukhona eyobunyanga nobungoma. Abaningi kabazi ukuthi ubunyanga nobungoma buyizinto ezimbili ezahlukene kodwa ezihambisanayo. Kwesinye isikhathi kuba khona ukudideka kwabanye. Lokhu kwenziwa wukuthi kuye kusetshenziswe igama lobunyanga noma sekuchazwa umuntu oyisangoma. Zombili lezi zinhlaka zehlukene ngokwezigaba zazo. Buyini ubunyanga? YISIPHIWO sokukwazi ukwelapha usebenzisa amakhambi esintu. Kuyenzeka umuntu afunde umuthi wokwelapha noma aboniswe wona ngabakubo, bese ekwazi ukuwuhlanganisa asindise ngawo abagulayo. Uma-ke lowo muntu esekwazi ukuphilisa abantu ngalo muthi, usengabizwa ngenyanga. Emandulo ubunyanga bebungathwaselwa. Bekwenzeka umuntu afunde umuthi komunye walapha ekhaya olaphayo bese lolo lwazi ludluliselwa esizukulwaneni esilandelayo. Izinyanga bezichitha isikhathi eside zicwaninga imithi ehlukene ngoba zifuna injula yokunqoba izifo ebezikhona emphakathini. Kwesinye isikhathi bekwenzeka umuntu azalwe enothando lwezihlahla agcine esekwazi ukuzisebenzisa zisize abantu. Lowo muntu ubebizwa ngenyanga. Umfana obejwayele ukuphelezela ikhehla lasekhaya uma liyokwelapha ubegcina esekufundile ukusetshenziswa kwemithi ethize, aphethe eseyinyanga. Kwenye yezincwadi zikaMnu PH Mtshali, ongomunye wabelaphi bendabuko abahlonishwayo e-Afrika eseningizimu, uthi ulwazi lwezihlahla nemithi kubantu abamnyama luqhamuke ngesikhathi besagxile ekuzingeleni izinyamazane ukondla imindeni. Kuvela ukuthi abantu bokuqala ukuba yizinyanga kube yiwona amaphisi. Bekuthi uma esehlathini ezingela, elokhu edla izithelo zezihlahla ezithile, kwaphetha ngokuthi akwazi ukuzehlukanisa nezihlahla

nanokuthi zenzani emzimbeni womuntu. Bekuthi noma sekukhona abalunywa yizinyoka khona lapho kuthathwe izihlahla ezithile kwelashwe ngazo lawo manxeba kunqandwe

nophoyizeni ungambulali umuntu. Ngokuhamba kwesikhathi laba bantu babe sebehlanganisa lezi zihlahla namafutha ezinye izilwane abebezizingela, kwaphuma ikhambi elithile. Kuphethe ngokuthi izinyanga zisebenzise izihlahla, amafutha ezilwane,

amathambo nezikhumba. Bube sebuchuma kanjalo-ke ubunyanga e-Afrika. Kakukho-ke lapho okuvela khona ukuthi izitho zomuntu ziyasetshenziswa ekwelapheni. Empeleni

okuvelayo wukuthi ubunyanga boqobo base-Afrika kabuhambisani nomkhuba obikwayo wokulapha ngezicubu zomuntu. Ngokuhamba kwesikhathi, kugcine sekudingeka ukuthi nezinyanga zikuthwasele ukusebenzisa imithi. Okunye obekwenza lokhu yisimo sezulu okubalwa isomiso njengoba umuntu ubeye athande ukuthuthukisa ulwazi lwakhe lwezihlahla bese ethola ukuthi ngakubo kunezingekho. Maningi-ke namanye amagama

asetshenziswayo ukuchaza inyanga njengoba kukhona nezibizwa ngogedla njalo njalo.

Buyini ubungoma? Lo mkhakha uthanda ukujula kakhulu ngoba wona esikhathini esiningi uthinta indaba yemimoya yabangasekho. Kuzokhumbuleka phela ukuthi

thina bantu base-Afrika sikholwa wukuthi uma umuntu eshona yinyama kuphela eshabalalayo, umphefumulo kawufi. Yingakho nje kuyinto ejwayelekile emindenini

ukuthi kube khona imisebenzi noma ubone kushiswa impepho kukhulunywa nabangasekho. Ubungoma bugxile esiphiweni sokubona izinto zingakenzeki

noma ukutshela abantu ngezinto abangakwazi ukuzibona. Kuyenzeka ukuthi umuntu aboniswe izinto elele bese ngakusasa avuke atshele abanye akuphuphile. Kwesinye isikhathi bekuke kwenzeke kushone ilunga lomndeni -mhlawumbe linesifo esithile -

ekuhambeni kwesikhathi kubekhona ingane esigula ngendlela efanayo. Kube sekuthiwa lo ofile uvuka kule ngane. Lapha kakukhulunywa ngokugula okufana nomdlavuza noma isifo sikashukela kodwa kukhulunywa ngokuguliswa wumoya othile, nokho okungelula ukuwuchaza. Ubungoma nabo behlukene amahlelo amaningi, obudala base- Afrika buhlukene ngala mahlelo alandelayo: ☛Amavuma-nhloko (amakhosi): Isikhathi esiningi ahlola ngekhanda, umuntu amchazele izindaba zakhe.

☛Abangoma Bankomoyolwandle (Amandawe): Bayahlola kanti iningi labo lisebenzisa kakhulu amathambo.

Imvamisa babizwa ngonyamsolo futhi baphiwe ukukwazi ukuhlunga imimoya emibi ngokuthi basebenzise indlela okuthiwa wukufemba, okuwukukhuculula imimoya kumuntu.

☛Abangoma babaLozi: Laba bahlola ngabalozi basolwandle futhi bayathwasisa.

☛Abangoma bamajoye (abashaya umhlahlo): Laba bamandla kakhulu ekushayweni komhlahlo besebenzisa izindlela ezahlukene.

Ngaphansi kwabo-ke ubungoma kukhona futhi nalabo abaphiwe ukwelapha ngokomoya kuphela. Bona bavamisile ukubizwa ngabathandazi ngoba bayakwazi ukuchazela abantu izinkinga zabo ngokuthi bapholofithe besebenzisa iBhayibheli, abanye bafunda isandla, abanye basebenzisa amanzi, abanye babhala ephepheni nokunye. Ubungoma buyaphoqa ukuthi

umuntu abuthwasele ngoba kabugxilile elwazini lomuntu kodwa kulandelwa izidingo zalowo moya osuke ukungenile. Umuntu akaveli nje asukume athi ufuna ukuyothwasa

ngoba yena usecabanga ukuba yisangoma. Ngokwale nkolo, umuntu uyakhonjwa

yidlozi lakubo bese likuveza ngezindlela ezahlukene ukuthi

selifuna abe yisangoma. Kwesinye isikhathi kuyenzeka

ukuthi emndenini kakukaze kubekhona umuntu onomoya wobungoma kodwa uzwe sekuvela eyokuthi kufuneka ayothwasa. Phela umuntu uyakhonjwa yidlozi lakoninalume kumbe kube wumoya walapho kuzalwa khona uninakhulu njalo njalo.

Emandulo izangoma bezingagxili ekufundeni umuthi ngoba okwazo bekuyikho ukubhekana nesimo

semimoya. Kunalokho bekukhona ukusebenzisana okukhulu phakathi kwezangoma nezinyanga. Isangoma besikwazi ukumxilonga umuntu bese simtshela ukuthi makahambe

aye enyangeni engusibanibani yiyona enomuthi wokumelapha. Ngokunjalo nezinyanga bezingahloli. Bekuthi uma zelapha umuntu bese zibona ukuthi akalulami, zithi makuyiwe esangomeni esithile kuyobhekwa umhlola. Inyanga beyazi ukuthi uma sekubuywa izotshelwa nanokuthi yiliphi ikhambi okufanele ilisebenzise ukuze umuntu asinde.

Ubonakala kanjani ongenwa ubungoma?

KULEZI zinsuku sebebaningi abantu abathi banedlozi lobungoma bese beyothwasa kanti cha kakunjalo, bahlushwa ngokunye nje.

Nayo imimoya yabangasekho yehlukile njengoba uke uzwe kukhulunywa ngamandiki namandawe, Isithunywa, izizwe, imimoya nokunye. Kwesinye isikhathi umuntu kuyenzeka aguliswe wumoya othile hhayi ngoba sekufanele ayothwasa. Ngeke-ke ngakuchaza konke okwemimoya ngoba kuningi, kuyodinga olunye usuku lwakho. Yize kunjalo kodwa bekubakhona izimpawu ezibonakalayo kumuntu osengenwa yidlozi. Ngizokha nje phezulu zazo. ☛Ukuboniswa ngephupho ulele: Lapha umuntu uvamisile ukuvuka axoxele abanye amaphupho ajulile, kwesinye isikhathi aboniswe abadala balapha ekhaya bemtshela ukuthi bayamdinga kulo mkhakha. La maphupho avamise

ukubelesela isikhathi eside. Kuyaba yizinsuku noma amasonto elandelana. ☛Umzwangedwa: Kwesinye isikhathi kuyenzeka umuntu avele angathandi ukuzihlanganisa nabanye, aphenduke umuntu onenhliziyo encane. Kuyenzeka futhi kubekhona ukudla umuntu angasakuthandi nokukubona, okuthi uma ekubona noma ezwa iphunga lakho, kuthi makaphalaze. Kwenye inkathi umuntu angakudla akufele uma ume emuva kwakhe noma umthinta amahlombe.

☛Ukugula emoyeni noma enyameni:

Kuyenzeka umuntu ahlale engathokozile emoyeni noma angenzelwa into enhle kanjani, angatshengisi ukukuthokozela lokho akwenzelwayo. Kwenzeke kwesinye isikhathi elele ahayize sengathi unezipoliyane. Ngokunjalo nokugula ngokwenyama kuyabakhona kanti umuntu usengenwa wubungoma. Omunye uvele abe nenkinga yokukhohlwa kakhulu ezinye izinto.

☛Uvelelwa yingozi: Umuntu uba nebhadi lezingozi kodwa angalimali.

Noma-ke nje ahlale ngokwephuka.

☛Uvelelwa ngamashwa: Kuvamile uma umuntu enqaba noma ebalekela idlozi ahlelwe ngamashwa. Oganile uthole eselahlekelwa wumendo. Omunye kuyenzeka ahlale ebhekana nezinkinga zokuboshwa kwesinye isikhathi aze aboshelwe nezinto angazenzanga. Kowesifazane kuke kwenzeke abhekane nenkinga yokuhlale ephuphunyelwa yisisu. Kwesinye isikhathi nosebenzayo uvelelwa yizinkinga aze alahlekelwe nawumsebenzi. Bekuthi uma sezibhekwe zonke lezi zimpawu bese abadala bomndeni beyohlola hhayi kumuntu oyedwa, kwabehlukene.

Kuthi-ke uma kucaca ukuthi usiphecelengwana lowo ungenwa yidlozi ngempela, bese enzelwa umsebenzi wokulivuma. Abanye baye bathi yimvuma-kufa. Inkolo yobunyanga nobungoma isalokhu iyingxenye enkulu yosikompilo lwabase-Afrika kanti bebekwazi

ukuyisebenzisa ukulungisa. Uma ufisa ukuphawula ngokuthile ngale nkolo ungangithumelela umbono wakho kwethi:

ndiyane@ilanganews.co.za

I am not your traditional, hard core sangoma who is defined by what she wears.

I believe I am a normal black/ African woman and its’ not easy to tell that I am a medium just by mere looking at me. I am not so many things that people expect of a sangoma, hence I call myself a spiritual medium.

I believe there is a God and he is ready to show us his powers here on earth. I did not attend any kind of training to do what I do. Through the power of God, I accepted the gift from my ancestors and started using it straight away. I helped a lot of people who also had a calling but I didn’t enrol them on any thwasa training. I only help to unlock their powers through consultations and doing what ancestors want from them. Most of these people became healers, in that they managed to do readings and receive messages from their own ancestors. Some of these people are employed so they did not have to quit their jobs or change their life styles in order to accept these powers.

Unlocking the powers means getting the ancestors to talk and vent out their anger and also opening the channels of communication so that they can bring relevant messages across. Once this is achieved a person accepts the powers and ask for permission to carry on with their life, employment etc.

I did not have to go around in public wearing the sangoma attire. This attire is something physical that we use in order to persuade the spirits to come through. It is also used during the reading if the spirits ask for it. So there is no need to walk around in this attire especially in public. Remember that the attire is something physical so the power of god doesn’t need it. Because it is physical, we only use it to satisfy and set free the ancestors who are still stuck on earth and thereafter we can just leave these clothes in a prayer place or may be use it at gatherings.

I do not use muti in healing people. Not all muti is bad but people need to know where to draw the line on this subject. At the beginning stages I also used muti because my ancestors would tell me what muti to use.These were just basic herbs for ailments.  Later on they told me that muti was not important and it had no power over the will of God. I was actually relieved because I never liked muti to start with. I do use impepho/incense though and ubulawu because it goes hand in hand with ancestral powers.

I am not superstitious at all…

When you receive a calling and accept the powers, it makes your ancestors happy so they want to share their happiness with you. They then give or unlock the gift of healing for you in return. When they hand over the gift, they tell you to use it wisely and right way. They tell you to use it whichever way you want as long as its’ for the good and healing purposes.

I am a child of God and he loves me very much. I am grounded in my faith and my belief in God. We are all the same in the eyes of the Lord and just because I am a female it doesn’t make me less of a person.

So, most, if not all female sangomas will not go to the prayer place during certain times in a month and I am not like this, at all. I can do my readings normally at any time of the month and my guides have never complained about this. God created women out of love and he loves us each and every day of the month, so anything contrary to this is just degrading and disgusting to me.

I once asked a friend of mine who happens to be a white female and she said to me that God(and the spirits) are less concerned about anything physical. Come to think of it, why must we punish ourselves for something natural that was created by God himself.

There are a lot of other superstitions that people believe in but I don’t. Some people will not eat pork and fish at certain times. Some of these beliefs stem from muti usage.

May be some of the beliefs had some basis in the olden days but I think times are changing and they have lost the original meaning and relevance. I think that democracy has played a major role in these transformations.

The mere fact that ancestors have allowed and embraced democracy in our land, means that we should also do the same. King Shaka said that we were not going to be able to rule this land and for many years that followed thereafter, people suffered under oppression in their own land.

Now that SA is free, we should also free our ancestors from the burdens of the past oppression. From the other side, our ancestors have moved forward to allow the freedom to prevail but we must also accept and embrace them in that state so that they help us in the way forward. We should celebrate this newly found freedom and acknowledge our ancestors in their move before we can actually reap  the rewards of this democracy.  If King Shaka has forgiven us from the misdeeds of the past, we must also make praises and proper appraisals to this so that we can attain love and peace in our country. We must go back to our ancestors and acknowledge them with the aim of re- uniting the whole country and then sing praises to our ancestors without shame.

We need to understand that we are all ancestors of tomorrow and when we do come out of a reading we will demand different things to what our ancestors are asking for, today. They make referrals to traditional mats and beads because that belongs to their time. Some demand  a cup of tea, even biscuits. So what will you demand from your great grand children?   …………. I know, I will ask for a plate of prawns…..hahaha!

Lastly, I do not wear a skirt when I do readings. My ancestors instructed me so because with a skirt it becomes difficult if I have to portray a male person. I  welcomed this with open arms, I must say.  Even during a gathering, I always advise ladies to put on some pants/tights underneath their skirts.   

The moral of the story…

• Ancestors come to us with their problems and we set them free when we accept the calling.
• We help heal other people while simultaneously setting our own ancestors free.
• Once they are free, you go back to your normal life and they thank you, whichever way God allows.
• A qualified healer should not be controlled or subjected to all these regulations that are created by human beings on earth.
• A healer must accept the presence of God and abide by him all the time.
• It doesn’t matter who you are and what you do or don’t’ do, as long as you heal the sick and counsel the troubled mind.
• God loves us all, let us use the powers only to heal and not to destroy.

Spirituality is a way of life

We come to this earth to live our lives, fulfil the purpose of life as we evolve, learn and teach others through our existence and then move on to another from of life as we go back to our creator.

Our connection and understanding of the spiritual world depends upon our connectedness to the ancestors. When we are born, we are more of spiritual beings than we are,when we are older. This is because our minds are pure and uncorrupted by life, its complications and our opinions of it. As babies we are still closer to the Lord so we take what comes before us as it is and we ask no questions based on common sense and reason.

As we grow older we forget about our innocence and we lose it all as we try to live our own lives and form our own opinion of it. We get lost in the busy life as we learn from life experiences and challenges. We tend to acquire new skills and listen to each and every technique that promises us better results in our lives. As we acquire education and we learn what other people found and put together for us in order to shape us into what this world expects from us. At this stage we lose the connection we have with our creator. We do things that other people expect us to do and then end up thinking the way society wants us to think. At some stage we live our lives for others peoples’ expectations  and forget about what is inside of us.

Often kids are advised to choose their careers based on the job market, supply and demand and the status of a career. During this time, we only think about what we can achieve if we choose a certain type of work. We don’t really think about what one enjoys doing as a person. What you enjoy is what feels right inside, what makes you excel and grow as a human being and a spiritual being. It is not always what pays better but then again what type of remuneration are we looking for? Often people are pushed to achieve more and study further but at the end of the day, they don’t get the satisfaction that their hearts desire.

Our spirituality speaks to us everyday as we grow older but we chose not to listen. We worry too much about other peoples’ opinions of us and what could go wrong should we chose to listen. When we ignore to feed our spirituality we end up being successful in one part of our lives when the other part is suffering dismally. I have seen people who are forced into careers they don’t like because of the difficulties we are faced with in our society. So many people went to teaching by default and they ended up being unhappy teachers in the classroom. I know that there is nothing much we can do about this situation at the moment because we are already way in too deep in these problems. As a result of this defect, some teachers are unhappy all their lives and when you asked them, they tell you, “this was never my first choice of career”.

Others will even study further and improve their skills while they fall deep into the kind of life that doesn’t really satisfy their spirituality. Now this is a reality of this life that we live in. It gives us hints that something is wrong but takes away the options we have when it comes to the solutions.

During this stage of our lives we think mostly about what life brings us and less about what we can bring to this life. One becomes entangled in the roller coaster of life s’ challenges and realities that we forget about the  spirituality side of things. When we feel that sense of emptiness inside, when things don’t seem to add up we need to take a breather and think again…

If we force right ahead, we neglect the soulful life that presents itself and want recognition from us. We end up being left alone by the powers that be, to fend for ourselves. At this stage things normally get out of hand and everything breaks lose. Others have called it mid life crisis, being out of touch with reality or simple losing one s’ mind. I know so many people who have quit their jobs, I don’t know how many times, people who were forced to change careers or those who got fired for innocent mistakes. This is what happens when one gets into a career by default, at some stage it catches up with you and turns your life upside down.

So many people are in the wrong careers but they don’t talk openly about it because there is not platform that allows them to do just that. At times you find that it is not just the career itself but it is the spiritual side of life that is not acknowledged thus it brings about these feelings of being unsatisfied in life.

If it happens that you are unhappy about your job, why not seek help and find advice based on those feelings alone. Based on the thoughts in your head and the feeling of uneasiness inside. Talk about it and find out which piece is missing in your puzzle before you worry yourself into a sickness or mental disorder. I have heard of people who get sick only when they are about to go to work-I was one of those hahaha!. Atleast  I knew that my guides were not happy with the kind of work I was doing.

In the meantime people can embrace their spirituality and incorporate it into their daily lives. This way you can manage to communicate with your spiritual side of things, ask it to accept the job you are doing now, even if it is not your first choice of career. This way you can invite your guides into your life and have them lead you into a life of fulfilment from within. When ever you feel that emptiness inside,  it means that a part of our life as a spiritual being is not taken care of. You can change careers all you want but the space inside will not be filled until you turn to the food of your soul.

I am by no means trying to say that education is not important, no ways. What I am saying is that we have become too much of followers than leaders in this life. When we look back in the history of life, people have been inventors and founders of certain things and discoveries. People founded education, motor vehicles, radiography, nursing profession, science, insurance companies and not to mention law itself. Now, our society today, just follows on other peoples’ findings and enter into other people’s invention with no questions asked. We seem to limit ourselves when it comes to being creative, like people from the past. What controls us the most is the economy situation and our will to fit into a place that is predetermined by someone else for us. We end up jumping from one business to another trying to beat the inflation and make more money in the end. May be there is nothing wrong with this for those that it works for them but the majority of the people are seeking  answers and they end up feeling empty inside.

All I am saying is, when you feel lost and uncertain at times, tap into your spiritual side of things and find direction.

We are all connected to our spirituality but the levels vary depending on the powers we carry with us. Some people are more connected than others because, they have a calling or may be they were just taught about ancestors from an early age. Others have no connection at all because, it is not anywhere near them in their bloodline of family relations here on earth or on the other side. This is caused by the fact that ancestors work through blood relatives and they take different times to show up in our lives and if it is not time yet for your ancestors to ask for help, they will just lay dormant until the time is right. The time is only right when there is a right candidate here on earth from the family line to accept the calling and use these powers to heal the ancestors and the family.  

Our connectedness to the spiritual world hits us again when we grow older. By this time we take all life lessons and create a new perspective of life based on our own experience and the new reality of life that we have attained. They say we become closer to the truth just because we are nearing of end of lives and are getting ready to meet our creator, again. To me this makes a lot of sense because as babies we are connected but we lose it all as we learn what people teach us on earth and then as we grow older, we go back to our own intuition and think from within, this automatically makes us spiritually inspired people. As a children we listen to adults and do as we are told. During this time our spirituality is based on what our elders dictate of it. We live life and prove some theories wrong with the aim of setting ourselves apart from the norm. As we evolve we make mistakes and learn from it. What we learn makes us the adults that we grow up to be.

I wish we could concentrate on our youth in terms of teaching them the realities of life based on spirituality.  This could make things easy for them to do more and beat certain challenges that seem to hit us all but nothing is being done about it. Spiritually inspired people seem to think more rationally and have a certain way of embracing life and its challenging in a way that make this life a better place for all.

Our spirituality brings us closer to the Lord. When we are closer to the Lord we look at life in a different light, a much more positive way.

Everyone seems to be at lost when it comes to dealing with all the challenges and problems of this world. As adults we try that which we can afford but most of the times we end up where we started, just revolving around in circles. Sometimes we go to healers and they tell us about our enemies. If they don’t promise us miracles which never happen at the end of the day. Some people are even budgeting at the end of the month and living money aside so that they can consult or get muti to try and remedy their situations. This has become a norm but people fail to see that we are going no where in this struggle. People need to learn and understand the role that is played by ancestors in our lives. We need to get a deeper meaning of the forces that operate around us as human beings no matter where in the world we come from. We also need to grasp the fact that there is a God, who is above us all and he came first, before the existence of the beginning…

When we understand these things, we can then realise that our problems will never go away unless we stand up and come together when it comes to finding solutions. Sometimes I get worried because there is too much to be done in order to get people to get this message. It is going to take an involvement of the whole nation in working together so as to achieve any significant results. People need to understand that we are all the same and share in the same powers that God allows for us to use on this earth. We all go through the same things but it varies with the levels of intensity- depending on our ancestors powers off cause.

As adults when we have problems, we search high and low for solutions with the hope of making sense of the situation we find ourselves in. We seek advice and get professional help where possible…now, Who is going to save the future generations? Who is going to help our children in making the right decisions and taking care of themselves? When all that we are concerned about is saving our skin.

When I talk about our children, I mean the young ones who are clueless about the challenges of this world, How do we empower them so that they can better handle these problems should they encounter tricky situation in the future. There are children who grow up with parents and they can follow on the teachings of their families and this is all good but at times you find that these kids will get out of hand even though the parents are doing all that they can. ..And then there are those kids who are orphans and have no form of a family structure that they can relate to. It is even worse with these young ones because there is no one who is concerned about them when it comes to spiritual matters. No one even knows their background and cultural aspect of their lives and family ties.

Why am I so worried about the children?

Children have no means of understanding the problems that we, as adults face on a daily basis of our lives. Children are supposed to be happy so that they can enjoy their youth. We set rules and try to instil good values and morality to our kids but sometimes they just get out of hand and we fail to understand the reason why.

I believe that it has to start with us parents, to understand that these kids that we have are a gift from above so we need to honour and appreciate such a gift. At times we become strict and lay down strict rules to be followed around the house but this does not work all the time. There are children who get out of hand even when they come from a good family. This leaves parents clueless and hopeless in the end.

When something goes wrong with “our gift” we need to turn to God and ask the right questions. It is important not to blame others or external influence but to look deep down inside and find out what feelings within us does this situation bring about.  We need to realise that something is wrong to start with and so we must find out what it is. When we ask the right questions, God will give us the answers.

When a child becomes uncontrollable, it is a good sing of an angry ancestor who is leading that child. As a parent you need to find out who are the guides leading a troublesome child. What I have discovered is that when parents bring such a troublesome child for a reading, the guides always come up and say that they are the ones causing the child to misbehave. They claim to do this so that the parents can get the message that the kids’ guides/ancestors are not happy at all (with the parent off cause).  When these ancestors come through they state that since, they are not happy with the family setup and the general conduct of parents when it comes to rituals, they would rather run away and live in a place where no one knows them. These guides usually complain that no one takes notice of them which is the reason why they also go astray and becomes uncontrollable. Now these guides will make a child behave in the same way that they feel. A child will careless about the parents and their rules. A child will get out of hand and choose to spend most of his/her time away from home. This child will then hang around with the wrong crowd and be influenced through peer pressure to do even worse things. At the end  of the day, it is the parent who suffers the most out of all this. This makes the parent to worry all the time not knowing what the child may do next. In sever cases a child may leave home and stay in the streets but when you look at the family left at home, you realise that they are normal, good people. Then it makes you wonder why would anyone in their right mind just leave such a place of comfort and go to live in the streets. This also tells us that these people who leave homes are actually sick in one way or the other and they need to be saved spiritually. They need to be understood and then taken care of by their own parents. Parents need to go back to the drawing board and find out what is it that they have neglected to do, for their children to do such shameful things.

When we look at our lives in an honest and open minded way, we can realise that we are also to blame for things that happen in our lives. Somehow we tend to draw situations to ourselves as a result of an angry ancestors that we have.

So our children need to be taken care of by us as adults, by all means. We need to accept that they also have guides in their lives and if those guides are powerful, children may show rebellious signs from an early age. When we see such signs in our kids we need to act fast before the situation gets out of hand. I don’t mind really if people consult with western doctors as well because as a parent you can do everything possible just to save your child. At the same time, I encourage parents to consult with healers and sort out their ancestors as well. This will help in avoiding the relapse roller coaster, that I have seen as a result of consulting with doctors only.

In cases  I have dealt with, I have witness a significant change with such children and the parents have become much happier people in their own lives.

Every time you are faced with a problem/major challenge in your life you need to look deep down inside and find out what feelings does this situation arises from you. Does it make you feel pain deep down inside? Does it make you feel hopeless and weak? Do you feel like no one can be able to help you with this one? Do you feel like giving up? This  the exact feeling that your spiritual aspect is going through. You need to understand that these feelings come from a deeper place in your soul and they are a direct indication of how your ancestors are feeling. Once you have captured these feelings from within, you can then go ahead and consult with a clear mind of accepting some responsibility from your part in the problems you are having.

Each time you have a problem no matter what it is, try and find the meaning behind it, try and understand what your ancestors are trying to tell you… Once you have unlocked that key, you can then gain the strength to go on and seek help with an open mind. Do not go to healers and ask for muti that will change the behaviour of your child because that may work for a while the relapse will set on, after a while.

 Remember that a times a child can be well behaved but their problems could be just ill health that keeps you worried all the time.

Now we come to the area I am most concerned about, the orphans and street kids. We have dealt with the problems of children who have families, now what do we do about those who are already on the streets or the orphans?  With these children the situation has already gone out of hand thus they are left homeless, with no parents to take care of them.

As a result an alarming number of these children end up being drawn to the dark side of life. With no one caring enough for them, they tend to go astray and do crime in the end. It is easy for a child who has no one to find some comfort amongst other kids who are also homeless and mischievous. Which is why  people are encouraged to adopt these kids and give them a home. This is easier said than done though… When you adopt a child who already has gotten in so deep in the problems of this world you must be willing to do everything you can to try and remedy that situation before you can live in harmony with such a child. This may seem difficult but in the end you will realise that it is possible even if you don’t know the real parent of such a child.

I have learnt that when an orphan comes for a reading and their guides come through, they are not really concerned about us calling them by their real names. A name is something we are given here on earth  for social security reasons. When guides come through they want us to accept them and at times they will even state that we wont be able to know who they are but all they want is recognition. So when a child is an orphan and no one knows their real parents, it never a reason for us to neglect them because the guides will always speak up even if you don’t know who they are. These guide are in a stated of remaining anonymous for a reason which is beyond our understanding. What we need to do is open channels of communication to them, accept and acknowledge them in a childs’ life. When you speak to the ancestor you don’t know, you need to tell that: “ I don’t even know who you are but I do recognise the presence of you in this childs’ life and I beg of you to help me with this child of yours. I am giving you a place to stay in my house, my prayer place and in this childs’ life so that you can be happy and bring us good things in our lives” This prayer can be very helpful in accommodating unknown spirits, making them happy in the life of a child you have adopted.

Those of us who are in a position to adopt, we need to encourage and give them support all the way. And those who can offer advice and help, they must also be encourage never to give up because all we are trying to do is create a better tomorrow…We can never give up when we see that things are getting out of hand in the world. These problems affect us all and when we sit and do nothing about it, things will only get worse.

I pray for the day when I will drive down town fearless of that guy standing at the traffic sign, asking for small change. I pray for the day when all our children will not be affected by our own negative energy and end up giving up on life itself.

What we need to get together and achieve as nations is, getting people to be more aware of their spirituality so that we can have happy people, happy nations and more positive energy in the world as a whole. When we take care of the younger generation, we will create a new brand of people who are well rounded in all aspect of life, who can then continue to improve on human relations in our world thus limiting the place of conflicts and fights amongst us all.  To achieve all this we need to start small. Start by the person reading this article. Find your passion in life and work on making your dreams come true. Find the power within you and create your own legacy that we will remember you by when you die. Think more positively about the future and the generations to come. Create a place that will be more friendly to our kids and give them the will to move on and do even better in the world. Touch some ones’ life in a positive way today, knowing that you have that power in you to create a better world.

Thank you…

God is love, God is great, he is everything. I look around and I see people going to church and claiming to be following the Lord but when I look closely, they don’t do much to help their fellow human beings. Somehow as a society we have managed to separate our religions from our daily lives. In that we go to worship and say and do all the right things while we are in a place of worship but once we are removed from that situation we go back to being our selfish selves.

People tend to discriminate against others and create all sort of boundaries that separate society and turn it into an uncaring institution. I am tackling these issues as a concerned human being, because when I look at the human race today, I get scared of what we have become. I know that a lot of people before me have tried to do something and some are still fighting this battle but I think we need to go about it on a larger scale than before. Simply because people are multiplying in numbers each and everyday and so are the complications of this life.

I have always been concerned about the human race, the purpose of life and the well being of people in general. I believe that no matter who we are, we all need to leave a positive and constructive contribution on this earth by the time we die.

Growing up, as a child I went to church and attended a few classes of Sunday school. I also learnt a thing or two about the bible in school, while I was doing the lower grades. As much as the bible confused me at that time, I also learnt a lot and I am grateful for that, today. When I went to church and listened to the priest, I thought I was going on the right direction. I use to get motivated and pumped up, to do the right thing. As time went on I grew older and realise that there were major differences between the church and real life out there. I realised that at church we wear certain uniforms so as to separate us and we belong to different groups within the church. I saw that there was a lot of competition within the church itself, which was contrary to what the preacher always said about people being the same in the eyes of the Lord. I couldn’t help but notice the distinct different between life inside the church and the real life outside, once I went out to take a  taxi home. It worried me that in the church were given a different picture to the reality that I saw in the world. I wanted to do more and be a hero or something…hahaha. I then realised that in the church or my church that I was in, I had to choose a certain side that would agree with powerful and influential people before I could succeed in following my dream of saving the world. I had thought that the church would be more willing to support, guide and counsel the youth which was still energetic and eager to do it all, but I was wrong. I belonged to a powerful youth organisation which had big dreams and we raised so much money at the time and even took trips to visit other youth organisations around the country. I was feeling so young and so full of energy at the time, I knew my dreams were coming true. Later on divisions within the church tore us apart as a youth. Those that remained were back to square on where you have to align yourself with certain people who hold the powers in order to ‘survive”. “survive” because I didn’t. I felt suffocated as if something was draining me out and killing my soul softly.

Looking back now, I realise that people have a problem when it comes to the  interpretation of the bible. It has not yet been revealed to our people what the bible really is and what it stands for. The bible is not there so that we can preach each other on it. It is not there so that we can pursue certain goals of our religion because these goals are far too different to the aims of God about the people. Some religions are based on a certain cause and they are there to fulfil such goals, and only that. And yet God is there to love and to protect everyone. We as a people have a problem of preaching the bible and all the good things in it but when it comes to our own personal lives, we do devious things just to get ahead, so we can go back to the church and preach some more.

People will preach until doomsday but they will never get hands on and practically help someone in a way that will save their soul. While people in the church will help you, on the other hand they are too keen to turn you around so that you can join their church. They will not help you so that you continue with your own beliefs and live a better live. There is always a motive to increase numbers, revenues…etc And still we get these scandals in the church…

I know that we get the same scandals with traditional healers too but it is all the same, because priests come to traditional healers during the dark and ask for muti to increase their congregations. Priest can contest this all they want but I am and use to be a healer, remember? So let us leave it at that.  Now I have decided to teach people about their problems so that they can understand where these problems are coming from and how to change their attitudes and overcome such challenges. My aim is to bring everyone together under one umbrella of God. The only way we can achieve this is when we learn to accept one another and love the next person as they are. We need to do away with  discrimination and separations  within our societies.

It is going to take a while before our people can see the light but I am not backing down. People who knew me before the powers still come to me and ask for all sorts of muti with the hope that I have it.

An old friend who is now a priest came to me with his problems a few years ago and I did a reading for him. I knew back then that he had powerful spirits around him so when I did a reading for him, these guides revealed themselves. I then told him how to embrace and pray for them so that they can solve his problems. To my surprise he ignored this and went on with his life. Maybe he wanted me to give him muti to solve the problems, I didn’t actually care at the time. Just recently he contacted me again, saying the problems are worse and I am not surprised because he didn’t listen. At the moment I don’t do readings on a daily basis. I only help people who are serious enough to come on the special day that I open and go through the whole process of cleansing in one day. This doesn’t happen very often because it is not my speciality at this point in my life. May be my dear friend will come down from his high horse one day and decide to do the right thing, quite frankly, it is none of my business.

Priest prefer to get a quick muti during the night no matter how much it costs so that their ancestral belief can remain their own little secret while they preach until they spit in front of a congregation every Sunday. I have friends and family who are in the church and they fuel these separations amongst our people and claim to be hand tied by the rules of the church. Others have said, that there is nothing they can do because the church puts food on their table.

People need to understand that the bible was documented based on lives of people who lived this earth just like you and I. It shows us what they did and its consequences. It doesn’t dictate but it advises, hence we take from it what we can use. From the bible you can learn how to conduct yourself in life and how to respect and care for other people. It doesn’t mean that we have to go back and live in those times or live exactly like those people did. Otherwise all men will take multiple wives-like in the bible. The bible teaches us how to conduct our lives so, once you understand what it says you should go out there and practice it. While practicing the bible you become a role model- whether good or bad that’s the fact. When you live on this earth you leave footprints behind from which the next generation can learn- it doesn’t matter what kind of live you lived. These footprints are like the stories in the bible, they are a mark upon which others can reflect or learn. This is the same like the internet today. It documents our daily lives, activities, mistakes and successes. Our children will analyse and learn from it one day. Internet is our way of saying we should still be documenting our lives in the bible, even today, so that the next generation can take lessons form it and use it wisely. Internet has everything, good and bad and very bad… But it is ones’ choice to learn and make the right decision in life. We need to stop judging but start teaching.

It would be close to impossible to document all our lives’ activities with the aim of continuing with the bible. We also need to learn that evolution adapts with time and so should we. Let us stop controlling peoples’ lives based on one or two parts of the bible that we like. Let us open our hearts and explore lifes’ challenges under one umbrella of the love of God. That way we can be able to live shinning lives, as good example for our children.

My aim is to unite people and make them understand that God is above us all and he doesn’t discriminate. People must stop judging and labelling others.

I also want people to realised that, it is God first, our ancestors and then ourselves. We cannot jump into religion and churches without first honouring God, our ancestors and then our lives. Hence we find so many priests visiting healers during the night just because we have separated the ancestors from God. God created everything and because of him, everything comes to existence, ancestors included. People must give glory to God, honour their ancestors and then go on to study and become priests of what ever religion they choose. That way Gods’ will and peoples’ goals will be met and the world will come together as one.

I am going to continue to teach and spread the message of love to everyone out there, with the hope that one day the world will unite in love. And may be when I die, someone else will take over and spread the message to the world…