Mmathabo Seaba has been a practicing sangoma for well over a decade and her journey came as a calling, not a choice. A sangoma is not a witch doctor. A sangoma is a healer. And just like every faith ...

DJ Culoe De Song has accepted his ancestral calling and has been scarce on the socials because he was undergoing the initiation process, which he's shared with TshisaLIVE in an exclusive interview. On ...

For multimedia artist Buhlebezwe Siwani, performance art is as versatile as reenacting rituals associated with ukuthwasa (training to be a sangoma), such as submerging in the ocean for the work ...

Everything about Fezile Pretorius flies in the face of conventional stereotypes. He’s a white sangoma and, while it’s still relatively unusual, his hue has nothing to do with his convictions.

She turns heads in an African print dress with black and white sneakers. She's hard to miss as she walks into the Move! offices - her hair is dyed blond; she's carrying a Gucci sling bag and she keeps ...

It was just past noon on a ­Sunday, and the News Café at Maponya Mall in Soweto was already busy. It was not easy to spot her. I expected to be met by someone in full African traditional wear, but ...

Elliot Ndlovu is incensed - a herd of Nguni cattle has just trampled through his treasured herb garden, leaving a wake of scattered plants along the footpath to his hut. But his irritation is brief.

The World Health Organisation (WHO), BBC News and books published on traditional medicine often report that 80% of the South African population uses traditional medicine as their primary healthcare.

On a typical Saturday afternoon in the urban community of Soweto, Johannesburg, a young woman dressed in red, white and black, beads jangling from the bandana in her hair, dances emphatically to the ...