The passing of Gogo Manzini, a well-known sangoma from Pretoria, has shocked South Africans. Gogo Manzini is renowned for her elegant dancing. She was one of the women who had a lot of energy; she loved to party; she was always tidy and dancing. She is well-known for both her dancing and her role as a sangoma. She is one of the contemporary sangomas, and if you saw her, you wouldn’t know she was one. Nobody in Pretoria has ever heard of her.
Gogo Manzini passed away in excruciating suffering. The way she passed away is one of the most memorable things—I know we can’t all decide how to pass away. She was shot in the face on Tuesday night as she was leaving a party; a video of her lying down in a pool of blood with two gunshot wounds in her face is currently spreading on social media. Even the outcome and the reason for her murder are unclear.
People are rude everywhere, but what really hurts is that as soon as she was shot, they started filming her lifeless body lying in a pool of blood. Her family has suffered greatly as a result of the video’s trending nature; content creation has subsumed people’s awareness; whenever an accident occurs, people capture images for content. We South Africans can do better, I assure you. May she rest in peace, my dear.