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Dr. Kobus Jonker: God’s Detective

In South Africa, they are balls deep in sangomas, or healers. For the most part these sangomas are legit herbalists. There are however a number of bad sangomas, known as baloyi, which are more like dark wizards.

av Henk Lustig, Photos: Kevin Goss-Ross

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sangomas

muti

sangomas

baloyi

muti

baloyi

You delivered testimony at the trial of Morné Haarmse, a.k.a. the Samurai Sword Killer. Do you think Slipknot’s music influenced him to repeatedly hack at his fellow pupils and ground staff with a kitana? He was wearing one of those masks after all.

Dr. Kobus Jonker:

Probably even more than ninety-nine percent.

Fokofpolisiekar

Tell me a bit about your work that involved investigating cults.

Annons

Hells yeah.

What about the sangomas?

sangomas

baloyi

sangomas

baloyi

Dr. Jonker with an ichoba—a sangoma’s magic wand made from a cow’s tail.

So the baloyi that perform muti killings… what do they use penises for?

sangoma

muti

Thanks for the heads-up. Are you still involved with cult crime investigations?

How do Satanists in South Africa differ from those abroad?

Why do think that is the case?

die sleutelhouers

That was the situation with the Samurai Killer, right?

Have you ever come into contact with someone that has been possessed?

sangoma

I don’t believe what I’m seeing now

Evidence confiscated from a Satanic ritual investigated by the Occult Unit.

This is the kind of thing Satanists do when they get together and pray to the Dark Lord.

Ants?

And you dealt with stuff like this on a regular basis?

Tokoloshe

sangomas

sangoma

And you think he may have been the Tokoloshe?

Tokoloshe

Returning to Satanism, what’s with the whole ‘torture and sacrifice cats’ thing?

Thanks for the interview.

sangoma

ichoba

I’ll try and remember that.