Daily Sun (June 5 2013) - ZOMBIE voices have driven Dikeledi Setlotlo out of her job and her house. Now they are driving her to death! Nobody else can hear the voices. When she tries to record them they keep quiet. BUT THEIR MESSAGE IS CLEAR: DIKELEDI MUST JOIN HER DAUGHTER WHO DIED 11 YEARS AGO!
The 48-year-old woman from Katlehong, Ekurhuleni, is pleading with Daily Sun readers to help her banish the zombies and their evil threats. Said Dikeledi: "I have been to different inyangas, sangomas and prophets but no one seems to know how to help me."
The voices began after the death of her 22-year-old daughter Lebohang in 2002 after a short illness. "I consulted sangomas, and they told me it was my ancestors wanting me to be a sangoma." But in 2004 another sangoma told her the voices were the people who had turned her daughter into a zombie! The problem got so bad she had to leave her job as a sewing machinist in Wadeville.
"One day I saw my daughter in the mirror. She was locked in a tiny room and tied in a chair with rope," said Dikeledi, sobbing as she recalled the moment. "Lebohang was wearing blue jeans and her hair was cut. She was trying to unlock the door but she couldn't," said the tearful woman. Even after she trained as a sangoma, the voices carried on.
"They said to me in isiXhosa: ‘ngiyingxaki emndenini. Ngiyingxaki yonke indawo' - meaning I'm a problem to my family. I'm a problem everywhere." "These people don't come inside the house. I hear them from the gate where they say all these things. I wish other people could hear them too."
She said the invisible zombies don't want her to be happy. "When I'm talking to people and laughing, I hear them saying ‘awumbheke unwabile' - look at her, she is happy." "I have thought of committing suicide because even my family has deserted me," she said. "The voices would like me to be dead, like my daughter." She said she was driven out of her house in Rondebult, and now lives with her niece in Katlehong.
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