Traditional healers not to assist criminals

“No traditional healer is allowed to prescribe evil muti to clients. Only an evil healer will do that.” A popular maine, Vho-Skhathi Nndwambi from Madombidzha village, was raising concerns over the weekend about clients who wanted him to concoct medicine to do wrong activities.

He said that some clients wanted him to give them medicine so that when they went to rob or steal, they might become invisible to the eyes of their victims.

“I am not an evil man; I am a maine, a healer of people and not a killer of people,” maine Vho-Nndwambi said.

The 54-year-old maine Vho-Nndwambi made the headlines last year after he had made a public claim that he had the powers to heal all the mentally ill persons who roamed the town’s streets and render all Dzithangani’s sex workers marriageable candidates. Maine Vho-Skhathi Nndwambi says no traditional African healer is allowed to assist criminals in committing crimes.

“Traditional healing is a gift from the gods, and all those who come to consult us know that we have been ordained to provide healing and life’s answers to many problems which they have,” he said.

He added that he had never heard of any maine who had authority or permission to give evil medicine to any client, and said that any maine who helped criminals commit crimes was acting against the gods' gift of traditional healing.

“As maine I have powers to remove an evil spell which makes any man or young man commit crimes,” he claimed. “There’s something in the heads of our youths who terrorise communities and I am prepared to rescue those young men from the bondage of committing crimes.”

Vho-Nndwambi started practising traditional African healing at the age of six, and he was formally initiated as a traditional healer when he turned nine years old.

Date:09 September 2016

By: Tshifhiwa Mukwevho

Tshifhiwa Given Mukwevho was born in 1984 in Madombidzha village, not far from Louis Trichardt in the Limpopo Province. After submitting articles for roughly a year for Limpopo Mirror's youth supplement, Makoya, he started writing for the main newspaper. He is a prolific writer who published his first book, titled A Traumatic Revenge in 2011. It focusses on life on the street and how to survive amidst poverty. His second book titled The Violent Gestures of Life was published in 2014.

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