Daily Sun (August 15 2014) - EVEN FACED with death, sangoma Dumba Myeni would not say where his muthi came from. Now he is dead, the victim of an assassin's bullets . . .BUT HE HAS TAKEN THE SECRET OF HIS POWERFUL MUTHI TO THE GRAVE WITH HIM.
"I saw Dumba arguing with a man about muthi," said a neighbour of sangoma Dumba (40) from Palm Ridge, Ekurhuleni. "The man seemed very angry. He kept asking, where do you get the muthi, where do you get the muthi?" The neighbour, who did not want to be named, said he left the men arguing and went into his room.
Only hours later the sangoma was dead. Dumba's landlord, Simon Mthethwa (42) told Daily Sun he heard shots during the night while visiting a neighbour. "I went outside and saw there was a crowd outside my house. When I got closer I realised Dumba was lying on the ground. He was bleeding heavily and he couldn't speak," said Simon.
"He died in my arms as I tried to keep him alive. He was a good man who didn't deserve to die like this." He said when Dumba died he had his cellphone and the keys to his house in his hand. Simon told Daily Sun on Wednesday the sangoma joked about his death. "He told me he wants his car to always be parked in his yard in case he needed to be rushed to hospital." He said Dumba got back from Swaziland on Sunday and maybe the people who attacked him thought that he had brought more powerful muthi back with him.
Simon said Dumba had many high profile clients. "Even cops would consult him about cases they were working on," he said.
"He was a good tenant and what pains me is that he has a three-month-old baby in Swaziland." Simon said that he decided not to clean the blood. "His family is very traditional and I am sure that they will want to do something with this," he said. Spokesman for the Eden Park SAPS, Captain Mega Ndobe, confirmed that a sangoma had been gunned down.
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