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Ligedla

Ben Themba Silindza — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 15:37:31 +0000

Ligedla is one of the forgotten callings for healers, I don’t know what other nations call these professional people. We do not have an equivalent word to call them in English. Some people say they are herbalists but herbalists use only plants to heal and they heal only the body, but Emagedla heal the body, [...]

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Ilobolo

Ben Themba Silindza — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 14:28:56 +0000

ILOBOLO – (TIBANJWA NGALETIKUDLAKO/UGWAZWE NGESIKHALI SAKHE. Kundzima kuba NGU AFRICA. Sometimes things that were meant for good can also be used to destroy you. Ilobolo have done more damage to Africans than the good it was intended to for. If you are a sangoma or inyanga you will agree with me that most of the [...]

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Kuphahla

Ben Themba Silindza — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 19:31:00 +0000

KUPHAHLA – The problem with people who are going back to African Spirituality is that they approach the spirituality like they used to do in Christianity. They use their background in Christianity and bring it to our spirituality. They just do a substitution of words and names of deities. For example prayer and kuphahla are [...]

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Ephehlweni

Ben Themba Silindza — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 10:10:49 +0000

Ephehlweni – A University for African healing. Kutfwasa, to be initiated to Devine healing that includes physical healing, spiritual healing and mental healing. So many people are initiated into this high calling these days especially in the townships and most of them end up not able to heal anything. Traditional healers like to recommend that [...]

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Kutfwasa(Kutwasa)

Ben Themba Silindza — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 13:14:11 +0000

KUTFWASA – I’m sure some of bogobela will be offended about what I’m going to write about, but my purpose is not to offend anyone but to uplift the calling of bunyanga and bungoma. I highly respect the calling especially that I’m from a family of tinyanga and tangoma in fact Bukhosi runs in our [...]

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