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The Team
We All Love What We Do
“…For we should always accept evolution and constantly morph into our true selves, in the process, not forgetting to reconcile all our identities as we proceed.”
Gogo Nomangungu, Founder
Gogo Nomangungu KaNomndindi - Founder, CEO & Head Medium
Gogo Nomangungu, Nqobile Buthelezi-Sibisi is a dynamic, articulate, vocal and intelligent healer that deflects the status quo of what umfembi, sangoma or shamanness looks like. She shuns the secrecy of ‘old practice’ and works to demystify African Spirituality through delivering talks and training on how to be in touch with one’s divine self. Her vision has brought together women healers from all walks of life and across healing associations in KwaZulu Natal and Johannesburg. She is a well-known medicine woman, with highly sought after concoctions for fertility, menorrhagia, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), fibrosis; neuro-balancing ale for strokes, seizures, epilepsy, headaches, and anti-inflammatory, antifungal and anti-bacterial ales and creams for various skin diseases like a rash, eczema, boils, cauliflower, umhlume and thrush. She is also acclaimed for home protection and unusual healing rituals that heal imisamo and a person’s trinity (mind, body and soul).
She is one of the rare umfembi (pure-mediumistic) healers in South Africa, with a large multiracial patient base in KwaZulu Natal and Johannesburg. Her ukufemba consultations are known to be precise, with the spirits channelling through her body giving their names, accounts of their lives and timelines and giving information on patient illnesses and imbalances in life and how these can be sorted seamlessly.
She is a former journalist, media innovation specialist, international media programmes manager and trainer. She moved back to South Africa in 2015, leaving her international media management career in Nairobi, Kenya, at the Africa Media Initiative (AMI) – where she headed fast-paced open data and news innovation Pan African projects, choosing her Sangoma consultation rooms in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu Natal. She had been in the healing industry part-time since her student days at Rhodes University in 2009 where she divined in an Amazayoni African independent church during weekends but practised full-time basis as from 2015. She is a former International media speaker. She is a former Highway Africa Conference Manager, where she organised a premier conference for all Africa’s journalists which was held annually at Rhodes University in 2010 – 2013. She managed a continental news agency – the Reporting Development Network Africa (rDNA) and won the Climate Change Leadership Awards, her reporters covering climate change impact stories around the continent. She managed and developed a Rhodes University approved Short course for the Future Journalists Programme (FJP) and expanded the programme to include students from all over the continent. Gogo Nomangungu is a Pan-African idealist, an avid traveller, a musician and a poet. She holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Media Management (Distinction) (Rhodes University) and a Bachelor of Social Sciences in Media and Linguistics (University of KwaZulu Natal). She is an Atlantic Philanthropies Scholarship recipient and a Rhodes University distinction graduate and a high school Rhodes Trust Scholarship recipient.
Gogo Fenyisa – Nokwanje Mtamnani – is a Johannesburg based Sangoma, managing our Johannesburg Office, in Katlehong. She is a clairvoyant who uses the ancient bone-reading methods of divination and is the second in command at Sangoma Diaries. Trained at Sangoma Diaries, Gogo Fenyisa is a resourceful herbalist and sangoma who also specialises in cleansing rituals (water, fire, air and earth medicines) to ground and balance patient energies. She specialises in healer-counselling, often tasked to co-manage the healer training programme at Sangoma Diaries.
Born on June 16, with June 16 celebrated as Youth Day in present-day South Africa, Nokwanje’s life and history have been synonymous with that of the young heroes who fought for basic human rights for black South Africans. She worked for the Trade Union Movement – an affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) as the overall company Secretary heading the Administration Department from 1984-1999. She was instrumental in helping shape the movement which has had great strides in mobilising and unionising black workers across the country, fighting for labour rights of the majority black labour force. She joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1999 – 2004 as the Head of the Department of Finance and Administration. She holds a Diploma in Bookkeeping and Accounting from Damelin College. From 2006 – 2010 she worked for Waweth Law and Policy Research as an Executive Manager, managing research and policy development and overall office management. Her last appointment was with Malibongwe Women Development as a National Coordinator overseeing the implementation of projects from 2011- 2014.
GOGO FENYISA - Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Gogo Nolitha - Chief Operations officer (COO)
Gogo Nolitha – born Nontobeko Mbatha Nazo – is a umthandazi, faith healer, who specialises in prayer rites as a modality for healing, using water, earth, fire and umoya (air) elements. She is particularly focused on:
Inhlambuluko/Confession Rites: peace-making and peacekeeping sessions with families, couples, in-laws and colleagues/companies.
Career Seminars for Youth: she offers career counselling, for young patients and families of previously troubled youngsters, to set them on the right track through investigation of their spirit-ordained gifts and talents.
Nontobeko Nolitha Nazo is a vibrant woman with a colourful personality who graduated in Drama Studies at the Durban University of Technology, where she learned about the art of Acting and gained experience in that field. She has spent the last 4 years volunteering at a local radio station where she has sharpened her Presenting and Radio Broadcasting skills.
She has been continuously involved in the arts industry and has been profiled by various Media platforms such as SABC Africa, Ukhozi FM, Igagasi FM, Lotus FM, Ilanga Newspaper, Umlazi Times Newspaper, Umphithi News, Isilozwe, Daily News and DUT Newspaper.
Nontobeko has spent 10 years working as a full-time professional in the NGO sector initiating, designing and managing various projects. Nontobeko has been actively involved in the South African social activism and advocacy space, in HIV/AIDS, Understanding Democracy, Youth Activism and many other community social ills. She has always strived to find ways to continue telling South African stories in her career through different art forms such as the use of theatre in schools, introducing Formal Debating in Township Schools, profiling artists and young people in radio who have ideas and pursuing great initiatives in their communities, mentoring and adjudicating Drama Competitions to using visual arts a form of expression.
She is also the founder of Youth Ignite Ambassadors, an NPO focused on providing township children with a platform to discover themselves as young artists, learn the different art forms as trade and inspire them towards seeing their talents as a possible means of living. She is very vested and passionate about human stories, arts and human evolution.
Gogo Waphezulu – Hlengiwe Ngcobo – is a Zulu priestess, umthandazi- a faith-healer and prophetess. Her approach to healing is centred around fusing indigenous healing methods with Christian rites, using holy water, prayer, steaming baths and holy incense and oils.
Her speciality is Prayer Divinations: engaging in prayer sessions with patients and revealing visions that emanate from prayer consciousness depicting the patient’s life, their ills and paving out a remedy towards holistic living.
Cleansings: particularly water cleansings (river, ocean, waterfall, lake)
Family Building: she offers relationship counselling for young couples, young brides in particular and counsels youth.
Gogo Hlengiwe’s professional history is deeply rooted in counselling and training. She has Basic HIV and AIDS and Tb dot certificates from the Gezubuso Project. She also attended the HIV and AIDS Counseling Course from Attic. Impressed with her abilities and zest for human interaction, guidance and counselling, the Gezubuso Projects organisation hired her from 2004 to 2011 as a trainer for all its programmes. She then joined Old Mutual as a financial advisor from 2013 to 2015 and also worked with the South African Family for Health (SFH) as Counselor Tester from April to September 2017. In October 2017 SFH trained her on Self-testing. Gogo Hlengiwe matriculated in Umsunduzi Finishing School in 2011.
GOGO WAPHEZULU - Training Manager
Gogo Nomasheleni - Rituals Manager
Gogo Nomasheleni – Ntombifikile Jeanet Ndlovu – is a sangoma based in Mpophomeni, Howick, in the Natal Midlands. She specialises in Nguni healing modalities, including bone-divination, mountain and river rituals.
She was born in Sweetwaters, Pietermaritzburg under the Zondi Chieftaincy. She currently resides in Howick where she works half-time as a domestic worker, and half of her time is spent doing African healing work.
It is during her time as a domestic worker where Gogo Ndlovu realised she has been called to heal. Her initial training was with a Nguni Master Trainer, where she graduated in 2016. She was later admitted to an IsiNdawe Training Waqeda lapho for 3 years under Gogo Nomangungu at Sangoma Diaries, in Mpolweni Mission, in the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg. She graduated in April 2019. She currently works between her own healing home in Howick and continues to assist at her training school at Sangoma Diaries.