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"Invisible guards from hell!" – Daily Sun

"Susan – I can’t find a job or a lover . . ." – front page lead, June 29 2015

Daily Sun (June 29 2015) - SUSAN IS lonely and hungry and in need of a lover.

But she has invisible tokoloshes who stand guard over her and make her life a misery.

SHE CAN’T GET A JOB AND SHE CAN’T GET A MAN!

“Since I parted ways with my husband I have never had a man in my life,” said Susan Nohve (38) from Daveyton, Ekurhuleni.

“My dreams of having somebody in my life to love and care for me are far away. Sangomas tell me there are two invisible men who chase my luck away.”

According to sangomas, evil people stole her panties, rubbed them with muthi and buried them in a graveyard.

“I noticed that my underwear was disappearing but I never thought someone was stealing it for muthi,” she said.

She doesn’t know who the people are and she doesn’t know where the graveyard is, but she believes she is doomed to a life of loneliness.

In 2009, when she was still married to her husband, they were involved in a major car accident. Although they both survived with minor injuries she believes it was a warning of disaster to come.

In 2013, her husband was retrenched from work. He found another job as a driver but thugs hijacked and robbed him and he was fired. He got another job, but there was a robbery at work and once again he had to leave.

Then, at the end of the same year, her husband left her and since then nothing has worked for her. Sangomas tell her these guards who stand over her are the cause of her problems.

“I want someone to remove them. I’m still young with feelings for men. But these shadow men have made it impossible for me.”

She said every time she meets a new man they vanish after exchanging numbers and she doesn’t hear from them again.

“I have visited several sangomas and prophets but they all tell me the same thing. I have these evil invisible men that chase away my luck. I need help,” she said.

Susan said even her own family hates her now.

“I was the angel of my family and everybody loved me but they don’t want to see me anymore now,” she said. “I can’t live this kind of life. I need help.”

A close relative of Susan’s said she knows about Susan’s problems.

“Sometimes she gets angry for nothing and fights with her family. Sometimes she tells that she wants to kill herself for having such bad luck,” she said.

Traditional healer Mahlinza Dlamini from Vosloorus said Susan has been cursed with the spirits of dead men.

“They are the shadows of human beings taken from the cemetery to destroy her. Whatever she’s planning won’t succeed.”

Mahlinza said no sangomas or traditional healers can help her.

“Only the ZCC and the Shembe Church can help her,” he said.

Susan’s husband could not be reached as she has no contact details for him.

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