“You cannot choose to be a sangoma”

Posted on Saturday, June 20th, 2009 in Press

(The Star, South Africa – March 23, 2007)

John Lockley was in trouble, he needed help. A man appeared in his dreams, telling him to find a Xhosa sangoma, but as a young white boy during apartheid, he didn’t know what this meant. When Jonathan Ancer asked him: “why not me?”, he replied…

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