THE 33-year-old woman from Soshanguve, Tshwane, said she has prayed, gone to her mamazala’s grave to talk to her but she won’t allow her to get on with her life.
She told Daily Sun before her mamazala died in January 2020 she treated her like her own daughter.
“But after she died, her son cheated and got another girl pregnant so I dumped him.
“Two months later I found a man who loved and respected me,” she said.
But then she started having nightmares about her mamazala.
“She told me to fix things with her son and when I refused she would strangle me,” she said.
“I’d pray and sprinkle salt around the house but it didn’t help.”
The woman said her room started getting very cold at night while the other rooms remained warm.
Her new man soon dumped her because he couldn’t understand what was happening.
She met another man and the same things happened.
Then the new man also dumped her.
Her eight-year-old daughter started getting scared and she took her to live with her gogo.
“A sangoma gave me muthi to sprinkle around the house and put on my pillow,” she said.
She found another man and this time the mamazala didn’t bother her for three weeks – but then she came back with a bang.
“This time she would strangle me and the person next to me,” she said.
The dead mamazala’s son (38) told Daily Sun there was nothing he could do because he goes to church and doesn’t believe in ghosts.
One of the woman’s exes, who was strangled by the mamazala, told Daily Sun he was scared to go near her.
Sangoma Joseph Dungamanzi said mamazala’s family must do a ritual for the woman.
“They never did any rituals and that’s why she’s acting like this,” said Dungamanzi.
He advised the woman not to waste money on izangoma and find an elder from the mamazala’s family to do a ritual so she could find peace.