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Besides modern hospitals and churches, the people in South Africa also go to the following two for healing: 1. inyanga (§ÅÂå) --usually men; traditional
healers (the principal ones organised in various local professional
associations) using a material divination apparatus (usually the widespread
system based on four divining tablets making for sixteen basic combinations) and
a wide selection of traditional and neo-traditional medicines; 2. sangoma (¥e¤R®v) -- usually women; spirit
mediums whose distinctive feature vis-à-vis the dingaka is the
inclusion of drumming and trance in divination and treatment, and a greater
emphasis on ancestral rather than sorcery explanations of disease and other
misfortune. (source) |
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Sangoma |
| Sangoma is the term for a diviner-priest in the tradition
of the Nguni-speaking peoples (Zulu, Ndebele) of Southern Africa. .
. . The sangoma's powers are based on the fact that she/he is the
incarnation of an ancestral spirit. Usually this spirit makes his presence
known by inflicting on the host a serious disease which cannot be cured by
cosmopolitan medicine. (source)
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