John Lockley

{{Infobox person | name = John Lockley | image = John Lockley 5.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1971}} | birth_place = Cape Town, South Africa | occupation = Sangoma | years_active = 2007–present | spouse = | children = | website = {{URL|http://www.johnlockley.com}} }} '''John Keith Kelly Lockley''' (born 1971) is a white South African who is initiated as an ''igqirha'', a traditional healer or ''sangoma'' of the Xhosa people.<ref name="Spirit&Destiny">{{cite news|url=http://www.johnlockley.com/publications/2016/8/10/the-sangomas-apprentice|title=The sangoma's apprentice|last=Turner|first=Sally|date=June 2010|newspaper=Spirit & Destiny|access-date=10 March 2013}} Posted at Lockley's website.</ref><ref name=IOL/><ref name=DailyNews>{{Cite news|author=Zohra Mohamed Teke |url=http://www.african-shaman.com/wp-content/uploads/Sangoma-Lockley-is-a-healing-connector.pdf |title=Sangoma Lockley is a healing connector |newspaper=Daily News |date=25 February 2010 |access-date=10 March 2013 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325035124/https://www.african-shaman.com/wp-content/uploads/Sangoma-Lockley-is-a-healing-connector.pdf |archive-date=25 March 2014 }}</ref>

==Training as a sangoma== Lockley was born in Cape Town in 1971 during apartheid to an Irish mother and a Zimbabwean father with British ancestry.<ref name=Spirit&Destiny/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/beruf-chance/mein-weg/john-lockley-im-rhythmus-der-xhosa-11708657.html|title=Im Rhythmus der Xhosa|last=Bröll|first=Claudia|date=7 April 2012|newspaper=Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung|language=de|access-date=10 March 2013}}</ref><ref name=DailySun>{{cite news|last=Sizani |first=Mkhuseli |title=I was called by ancestors, says mlungu |url=http://152.111.1.87/argief/berigte/dailysun/2011/05/03/DE/9/DEMlungu-sangoma%20OF%20THE%20ANCESTORS_1223.html |access-date=11 March 2013 |newspaper=Daily Sun |date=3 May 2011 |quote=He told Daily Sun: 'I was born with a band of birth skin around my eyes. It is the white mark of the sangoma.' |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325010420/https://152.111.1.87/argief/berigte/dailysun/2011/05/03/DE/9/DEMlungu-sangoma%20OF%20THE%20ANCESTORS_1223.html |archive-date=25 March 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.johnlockley.com/publications/2016/8/10/bridge-of-reconciliation-sacred-hoop-magazine-issue-56-2007|title=Bridge of Reconciliation|last=Lockley|first=John|date=2007|newspaper=Sacred Hoop|access-date=10 March 2013}} Posted at Lockley's website.</ref>

He completed an honours degree in clinical psychology at Rhodes University in 1997.<ref name=IOL>{{cite news|title=White sangoma dreams his destiny |url=http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/white-sangoma-dreams-his-destiny-1.350566#.UTyIvdZTCz4 |access-date=10 March 2013 |newspaper=IOL |date=28 April 2007 }} Shortened version of [http://www.african-shaman.com/wp-content/uploads/sangoma-cannot-choose.pdf "You cannot choose to be a sangoma"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707094719/http://www.african-shaman.com/wp-content/uploads/sangoma-cannot-choose.pdf |date=July 7, 2011 }} by Jonathan Ancer in ''The Star'', 23 March 2007.</ref><ref name=Times>{{Cite news|url=http://www.african-shaman.com/wp-content/uploads/sangoma-heed-call.pdf |last=Mthethwa |first=Bongani |title=Celebrity sangomas heed the call of ancestors |date=21 September 2008 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=10 March 2013 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120913180950/https://www.african-shaman.com/wp-content/uploads/sangoma-heed-call.pdf |archive-date=13 September 2012 }}</ref>

In 1997 in post-apartheid South Africa he met Xhosa sangoma Mum Gwevu in the Joza township in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. Mum Gwevu says she had foreseen his arrival in a dream. He was trained as a sangoma in the Eastern Cape townships, serving a 10-year apprenticeship with Mum Gwevu which he completed in 2007. Mum Gwevu gave him the Xhosa name ''Ucingolwendaba'', which means "messenger".<ref name=IOL/><ref name=DailyNews/><ref name=DailySun/><ref name=Times/>

He also practices and teaches yoga and Zen Buddhism.<ref name=DailySun/>

==References== {{Reflist}}

== Further reading == * Baker, JH (June 2010) [http://www.johnlockley.com/publications/2016/8/10/the-lone-leopard "The Lone Leopard" (PDF)]. ''Sacred Fire Magazine''. Retrieved 10 March 2013 * Timm, Lindy (14 July 2009). [http://www.johnlockley.com/publications/2016/8/10/after-the-calling-dream "After the calling dream" (PDF)]. ''The South African''. Retrieved 10 March 2013. * Zanardi, Sylvia (26 June 2015). [https://web.archive.org/web/20160913180406/http://www.capechameleon.co.za/2015/06/sangomas/ "Sangomas - Traditional African Healers"]. ''Cape Chameleon''. Retrieved 8 September 2016 * Ancer, Jonathan (20 March 2007) [http://www.johnlockley.com/publications/2016/8/10/a-call-to-become-a-sangoma "A Call to Become a Sangoma"]. ''Grocott's''. Archived (PDF) on 8 September 2016 * (10 August 2016) [http://www.johnlockley.com/publications/2016/8/10/together-we-are-strong "Together We Are Strong" (PDF)]. ''Sacred Hoop Magazine,'' UK. Archived (PDF) on 8 September 2016

==External links== * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhvPyGpkjes&context=C461c06dADvjVQa1PpcFPaLhWBf3BK-pwlko8kryC4Q54cWf086dU= Interview on The Morning Show, TV3, Ireland (23 August 2011)] * [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p007hcd4 Interview on Outlook, BBC World Service (13 May 2010)] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160410220833/http://www.johnlockley.com/podcasts-1/ Interview on Saturday Live, BBC Radio 4 (5 Sept 2009)]

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