According to Mackles, an expert on the subject, by harvesting and consuming the parts, a witch doctor, or "sangoma", will capture the victim's life force and energy.

The help of a Botswana witch doctor was enlisted to predict the viability of a movie based on the best-selling book The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, its producer has said. The prophet divined ...

Testimonies included one witness claiming Smith had discussed selling her children for 20,000 rand (£850) each, while another revealed plans to give her daughter to a "sangoma" healer desiring ...

Shalaba of Boipatong township 40 miles south of Johannesburg in Gauteng Province had her phone calls analysed, which led police to a sangoma or “witch doctor” working out of a nearby taxi rank.

Online Witch Doctors Lure South African Christians. ... Another sangoma, Gogo Khanyakude, offers online “dream interpretation” and “crossover meditation” for a millennial clientele.

A sangoma is not a witch doctor. A sangoma is a healer. And just like every faith or belief system, it has a dark and light side. There are many similarities between the beliefs of various ...

If Sebenzile Nsukwini's bones are anything to go by, the World Cup is going to pass off without a hitch and hosts South Africa are destined for great things.

OVERWEIGHT and diabetic, Aletha Schweps sought the help of a witch doctor when conventional medical practitioners failed to cure her ailments. What makes that unusual in South Africa, a country in ...

Hammarsdale resident Ntombenhle Xaba is frantically searching for her three-month-old son, Siyabonga, who was allegedly abducted by a popular KwaZulu-Natal witch doctor. Wednesday, June 18, 2025 News ...

A British banking consultant has retrained as a witch doctor after a gruelling three months' initiation in the South African bush. Thomas Heathfield, 32, from Maidenhead in Berkshire, England ...