By: Natasha Archary
Traditional healer Gogo Maweni reveals that she didn’t always want to become a sangoma, having always looked down on it.
Maweni, whose real name is Lee Ann Makopo said it was only after son got sick and was in a coma for 2 days that she decided to become a sangoma.
In an interview with Musa Khawula, Maweni shared that her son being in hospital every week, and not knowing what was wrong with him, pushed her into traditional healing.
Maweni wanted to assist doctors to find out what could be done to help her son.
“I’ve said this time and time again, I really didn’t want to be a healer. I’ve looked down on it. I had to because of my son. He had to be heavily sedated because of his fits.”
Maweni’s eldest son is epileptic and as a result he’s unable to move to America where his biological father resides.
The sangoma who also has a reality show said she couldn’t have kids before she met her first son’s father in New York.
“The gynaecologist told me, you don’t have a chance of having kids.”
It was only after she consulted with a sangoma and communicated with her ancestors, asking them for a baby that Maweni had her first child, Mason.
The mom of three shared with Khawula, who has been ordered to cough up R500K in a defamation case, that she only got her menstrual cycle at the age of 22.
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