Heritage month over
Why celebrate culture or heritage day if we, the elders do not respect our culture?
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ust two days ago we were still celebrating heritage month, being proud of our culture, and showing other tribes what we got, defining our cultural activities and then we stopped doing it. When I was surfing the internet, today I came across this: I read this online article on city press
“A sangoma from Soweto has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman who had gone to him for healing. According to Gauteng police the 50-year-old man invited the woman to his residence to carry out a cleansing ritual last night because she believed she was cursed with bad luck, spokesperson Captain Kay Makhubela said. “She was instructed to buy a white chicken and when she arrived with it ... the chicken was killed and the blood was mixed with water and medication.” The sangoma then ordered the 37-year-old to take a bath in another room and not wear clothes after she was done. “Then he went into the room and told her she was healed. All of a sudden, he was on top of her and he raped her,” said Makhubela. The man later threw the bath water out and said she was healed of the bad luck. The man was arrested this morning and a case of rape has been opened.” (http://www.citypress.co.za/SouthAfrica/News/Sangoma-held-for-rape-20121002)
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The community should be very careful when coming to issues such as knowing your roots and culture. Peolpe out there are up to making money and such issues that concern culture is an easy way for them
ReplyDeleteI think the community too,should be responsible to teach the youth about their culture in groups not individualy to avoid such incidence
DeleteThis is really unfortunate but that doesnt mean that all healers will want to hurt their patients. The Lord has many methods for healing his children, and this has been in use since Africa's inception.
ReplyDeleteBut, we cant allow one isolated case to scare off each other from medicine and to scare off potensial investors too.
Its REALLY messed up though...
I understand that not all the healers are evil,but this should be a wakeup call to all communities
DeleteAll we need to do is to avoid copying bad thins and stick on doing more positive things.
ReplyDeleteYes but we need to make the communities to be aware
DeleteHeritage day is an important day for us Africans to celebrate our different cultures and this is going to affect us because people will not want to come to our country to because of such things.
ReplyDeleteSee/ that is why i think we should all be concerned in what our communities are doin,to avoid bad image of our country
Deletethis is such a horrible situation and bad behaviour for this traditional doctors because people believe that they can heal them as they say that they can speak to ancenstors. our culture are destroy by such people that why a lot of the youth do not belive in culture and the focus on the modernised culture because they think is realistic and does not come with complicayions
ReplyDeleteTrue that,now the problem is a culture,speaks fro evry nation,so if we dod not do something about this,we might end up with regrets
DeleteThis situation is really bad, it portrays all songomas as bad news and disrespective of their clients. This also affects the South African image as a whole because now we are going to be seen as a country with traditional healers that are unreliable and not trustworthy.
ReplyDeleteexcztly,that is why i think we should do something before matters get worse
DeleteThese sangoma's take advantage of people,they lie and use people for their money. I do not believe anyone can tell you about your future unless that person is God, people need to realise that these people are not fortune tellers,they just there to provide traditional medication to the people,which may sometimes work.
ReplyDeletesometimes work?so they dod not work every time?
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