Earlier this yr, sangoma and actuality TV star Makgotso Lee-Anne Makgopo, higher generally known as Gogo Maweni, instructed Podcast and Chill hosts MacG and Sol Phenduka that her home is “full of snakes” plus the odd owl and some rabbits. On Tuesday 18 October, Maweni — who starred in Mzansi Magic’s Izangoma Zodumo about fashionable conventional healers in 2019 — shared a video clip of her new pet cobra on Twitter.
A voice within the background of the video — which may very nicely be that of hubby and businessman, Sabelo Magube — says he loves the truth that the reptile is venomous…
Watch: Gogo Maweni reveals off her new pet cobra
The video elicited a combined bag of Twitter responses, starting from quirky to fingers pointed at witchcraft.
Twitter person @ChrisExcel102 commented: “How about you start using this witchcraft to end load shedding.”
@bigbabyyykuti commented: “Inorutsa mari here? [Does it vomit money?]”
@wwwandyaya838 stated: “Now I believe when they say iinyoka ziyazwana [Snakes understand each other].”
Wealth-giving snakes and ‘ukuthwala’
According to Zalebs, Maweni’s revelation of her then 5 slithery home mates on Podcast and Chill with MacG (which aired in June this yr) was additionally met with allegations of witchcraft.
The celeb sangoma, nevertheless, didn’t waste any time to hiss again at those that stated she practises witchcraft together with her snakes. In African tradition, it’s believed that snakes are used for witchcraft or ukuthwala (wealth-giving darkish magic).
“I don’t use these animals for anything. I love animals,” she was quoted as saying.
In her interview with MacG, Maweni defined the workings of ukuthwala, making it clear to viewers that different folks can by no means see a bewitching snake, solely the proprietor can.
“If uthwele with something, another person can’t see it (the snake) with their naked eyes. If ngithwele ngenyoka, you cannot see it, but I can see it, because it’s mine.”
The sangoma’s snakes are reportedly additionally a part of her session enterprise with an albino python referred to as Escobar being the largest of the lot.
In December 2020, the slay queen sangoma additionally needed to defend her “pets” after creator Jackie Phamotse claimed in her Instagram Stories that some South African celebrities get their fame and fortune from utilizing “dark magic” involving snakes.
Muthi for men…Gogo Maweni’s shock confession
The break-out star of Izangoma Zodumo has been trending these days for all of the fallacious causes.
Thabo Rakhale
The South African reported this week that Gogo Maweni has confessed on the newest episode of Gigi Lamayne’s podcast, Point of View, that she used muthi to finish the soccer profession of her ex-boyfriend and Orlando Pirates participant Thabo Rakhale after he dumped her.
Maweni has three youngsters, one among them with former The Queen actor Sthembiso “SK” Khoza and one among them is outwardly American.
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SK Khoza
In April this yr, Maweni topped the Twitter tendencies record when tweeps began speculating that she orchestrated the wild behaviour of SK Khoza which got here to mild in a number of disturbing on-line movies. The actor misplaced his function as Shaka in The Queen as a outcome.
Speaking to TimesLive on the time, Khoza refuted claims that he was on medication.
“It was [a] second the place I used to be handled in a unhealthy manner and I misplaced my s**t. No one was harm, simply any person was sworn at.
Twitter sleuths had been fast to dig up an outdated social media submit to again up their claims that she bewitched the actor. Take a take a look at the submit:
“I don’t have baby daddy issues. All issues were settled in my nduma! The outcome was to leave them with nothing…if my kids don’t “eat” nobody eats – do the mathematics!”
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Siyabonga Zulu
In the identical Podcast and Chill interview, Maweni admitted to MacG that she bewitched her first child daddy, former Mamelodi Sundowns participant Siyabonga Zulu, to “teach him a lesson” following his failure to pay youngster upkeep amongst different issues.
She acknowledged that in trade for letting him drive her automobile, which she later claimed he crashed, she helped him advance in his profession.
According to the sangoma, she needed to cough up R45 000 for the soccer participant’s invoice at Icon nightclub whereas he cheated on her.
“I gotta take credit for that though. I don’t know how to answer you guys…I’m trying to be a good girl,” she began off.
“Honestly, I bewitched him. Well, let’s not say I bewitched him. It’s a factor of ‘you think you know better when I’ve helped you’. When you’re now on that pedestal you suppose you already know. You can not play for a weak a** crew and I’m busy caring for you. You get a good contract and I get pregnant, we transfer in collectively.
“All is well, you don’t have a car at that time, you take mine and crash it and leave it somewhere in Soweto. And you’re busy cheating. Also his family was just toxic, horrible and annoying. But honestly speaking, it was a thing of me saying it’s enough now. I am teaching you something.”
No “baby daddy issues”?! Guess that’s as a result of she already took care of all of them…her manner.