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About Nomathongo
Maya was born in Pretoria, SA in 1978 and soon after moved to Holland where she lived for 23 years.
As she got older she always knew she would one day return to her country of birth and that something very important was waiting for her there.
After dreaming of her teacher years before she actually met him in the flesh, she came to understand she had the Calling to become a Sangoma, or Traditional Healer, in the amaPondo tradition of South Africa.
At her initiation she was given the name Nomathongo, meaning ‘Mother of Ancestral Dreams’ or 'Woman of the Ancestors'.
After almost three years of training (ukuthwasa) she graduated at her Tata Chris Ntombemhlope Reids' homestead near Magwa Falls in the Transkei, EC. in 2009.
She now practices as a Sangoma based in Cape Town as well as Internationally and online, to follow her Ancestors wishes for her to be of service to the community as well as act as a bridge between the different cultures.
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