Friends of Laduma Madela on Ceza Mountain, Mkhafuleni Khumalo
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04 October 1979
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Mkhafuleni demonstrate the way he fights the lightning: He stands near one of his anti-lightning posts=decayed trees which have crosses (not visible) made with red anti-lightning medicine. He wears, in addition to his normal outfit, frontal and rear apron, isinene and ibheshu, the skin of a sheep ram. Though being brown it is regarded as black. It is part of a lightning doctor's outfit. Though trained by Susa Madela in anti-lightning magic Mkhafuleni is no lightning doctor, inyanga yezulu. In spite of this he fights the lightning in different ways, also by pointing towards the lightning with his spear which has no shaft.
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