Father's Spirit: Healer Claims her Beard has 'Healing Power'

She has no problem with her beard - Nomsa Gumede (54), a traditional healer Majazana, south of Johannesburg believes she receives power fro...

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She has no problem with her beard - Nomsa Gumede (54), a traditional healer Majazana, south of Johannesburg believes she receives power from her beard.

“I’m using the spirit of my late great-grandfather. He was a great healer in KwaNhlabuyalingana, northern KZN, where I come from,” she told Daily Sun.

“If I shave my beard, I become weak and I can’t read the bones.” Her beard started growing 23 years ago after she finished her training, and she has only shaved once since then.

“I lost all my power, but the hair grew back and I was fine. I’ll never shave again. People call me the strong one.” She was a herd girl and never went to school.

Healing Power

“I began earning money as a domestic worker at the age of 15 but when I was 30 my body started swelling up and I struggled to walk. Doctors could not tell me what was wrong,” said Nomsa.

Her parents consulted three sangomas, who all said she had a calling. “My ancestors showed me the third sangoma through a dream. Within a week of twasa I was better and could walk by myself.

“My gobela made cuts in my skin at various place on my body, which raised the ancestors.” She said her main source of food is igobongo, which is the foam from muthi.

Nomsa, who is also a singer and dancer, said it is not true that women with beard like fighting. - Daily Sun

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