# John Lockley

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| name        = John Lockley
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| birth_date  = {{Birth year and age|1971}}
| birth_place = [Cape Town](/source/Cape_Town), [South Africa](/source/South_Africa)
| occupation  = [Sangoma](/source/Traditional_healers_of_South_Africa)
| years_active = 2007–present
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| website     = {{URL|http://www.johnlockley.com}}
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'''John Keith Kelly Lockley''' (born 1971) is a [white South African](/source/white_South_African) who is initiated as an ''igqirha'', a traditional healer or [''sangoma''](/source/Traditional_healers_of_South_Africa) of the [Xhosa people](/source/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](/source/Cape_Town) in 1971 during [apartheid](/source/apartheid) to an [Irish](/source/Irish_people) mother and a [Zimbabwe](/source/Zimbabwe)an father with [British](/source/British_people) 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](/source/clinical_psychology) at [Rhodes University](/source/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](/source/post-apartheid_South_Africa) he met Xhosa sangoma Mum Gwevu in the Joza [township](/source/Township_(South_Africa)) in [Grahamstown](/source/Grahamstown), [Eastern Cape](/source/Eastern_Cape). Mum Gwevu says she had foreseen his arrival in a dream. He was [trained as a sangoma](/source/Ukuthwasa) in the Eastern Cape townships, serving a 10-year apprenticeship with Mum Gwevu which he completed in 2007. Mum Gwevu gave him the [Xhosa](/source/Xhosa_language) name ''Ucingolwendaba'', which means "messenger".<ref name=IOL/><ref name=DailyNews/><ref name=DailySun/><ref name=Times/>

He also practices and teaches [yoga](/source/yoga) and [Zen Buddhism](/source/Zen_Buddhism).<ref name=DailySun/>

==References==
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== 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](/source/Jonathan_Ancer) (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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