Khotso sethuntsa biography
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The Extraordinary Khotso: Millionaire Medicine Man from Lusikisiki
Khotso Sethuntsa, the near-legendary medicine man, was believed to be a worker of powerful and dangerous magic. Khotso was renowned and feared throughout South Africa and beyond, even after his death in 1972. He created a fabulous eccentric kingdom around himself. He has been surrounded by mystery: the origins of his fortune and the extent of his powers shrouded in secrecy. This title takes us into the world of one of southern Africa’s best-known herbalists. Khotso was famed, especially, as a seller of ibangalala, a herbal remedy for sexual potency, and ukuthwala, a terrifying procedure for acquiring long-term wealth. Also, he claimed to be in spiritual contact with Paul Kruger, hinting that his fortune derived from the long-lost Kruger millions. Meanwhile, leading Afrikaner Nationalists politicians, including H.F.Verwoed and J.G.Strijdom, sought Khotso out – for his medicines for political power, it has been said. Some believed that Khotso had entered into an occult pact with the mamlambo, the seductive mermaid woman who grants wealth at a terrible price. It is rumoured that the tragic twists and turns in his life sprung from this. Yet, as one of his many wives said, he was, too, ”a li
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Imvubu Newsletter
© Hirst, M. 2001 Imvubu 13:3, 1,6-7.
As befits a powerful healer, ‘shaman’ or intermediary with the spirits, Khotso Sethuntsa (1898-1972),1 the famous Transkeian herbalist, was a man about whom many incredible stories were told. He was a legend in his own lifetime and the inspiration of a number of popular magazine and newspaper articles.
Following his death, it was said that “he offered people ‘eternal life’ for amounts of up to R2 million” maintaining “it was infallible” because “it had twice brought him back from the dead.”2 Apart from claiming to be “the richest and most successful medicine man in the world,” with an estimated personal fortune “between R6 … and R12 million,” he apparently also claimed to know “the secret of the Kruger millions.”
Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Boer Republic, is reputed to have buried millions in money and gold before fleeing South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War. Apparently, under Khotso’s “gaudy mansion” were “secret dungeons” in which most of his money was hidden. But it was also rumoured that Kruger’s treasure was buried in a cave on the coast.3 Khotso apparently knew
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Khotso Sethuntsa
South Mortal herbalist (1898–1972)
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Upbringing
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