The Journey Kwantu

Epizódok

• EP51: THE VERY FIRST ISITHUNYWA 11.06.2026 46p

  In this episode, I wanted to trace the origins of what kept coming up in the last series, isithunywa
• EP50: WHY DO HEALERS START CHURCHES | Part 3 21.05.2026 1ó 24p

  In Part 3 of this topic we spend time with the founders and congregants of the Seven Days Adventist Zion Church
• EP49: WHEN HEALERS START CHURCHES PART2 07.05.2026 1ó 35p

  In this episode, we spend time with Gogo Simenjalo and Gogo Zanemvula, a mother and daughter duo who use components of the Christian church and the bible as part of their healing practice
• EP48: WHEN HEALERS START CHURCHES PART1 23.04.2026 1ó 38p

  In this series we are exploring how healers balance African spirituality and Christianity. We will be attending different African Indigenous churches to try to get deeper understanding of this topic
• EP47: HOW THE TOWNSHIP DESTROYED SPIRITUALITY Pt3 05.02.2026 53p

  This 3-part series is an in-depth exploration of the realities of the relationship between alcohol and spirituality in the practice of African culture
• EP46: THE TRUTH ABOUT ALCOHOL AND SPIRITUALITY PT2 05.02.2026 47p

  This 3-part series is an in-depth exploration of the realities of the relationship between alcohol and spirituality in the practice of African culture
• EP45: THE TRUTH ABOUT ALCOHOL AND SPIRITUALITY PT1 05.02.2026 46p

  This 3-part series is an in-depth exploration of the realities of the relationship between alcohol and spirituality in the practice of African culture
• EP44: HOW THE TOWNSHIP DESTROYED SPIRITUALITY Pt2 27.11.2025 1ó 17p

  So this is part 2 of the topic of how the township destroyed African spirituality. It’s a conversation that I have been having with Bongisa Msuthu and Lerato Motshabi who are practitioners and academics within the architecture space.  In the previous episode we explored the historical context of African architecture and how it informed how people structured their lives from a cultural and spiritual perspective. In this episode we now delve deep into the origins of township architecture. How it came about. The intention behind it and how the world it created shaped our cultural and spiritual identity. Let’s get into it. 
• EP43: HOW THE TOWNSHIP DESTROYED SPIRITUALITY | Part 1 18.09.2025 1ó 14p

  How did the physical structure of the township affect how black people navigated spirituality? Did it help to cultivate a better understanding of our connection to God or did it enforce a detrimental mindset?
• EP42: SPIRITUAL BURNOUT 06.03.2024 1ó 55p

  I think spiritual burnout has led many people to make drastic decisions or to misinterpret their experiences. Some people left church because of spiritual burnout. Some people cut their beads, burnt their cloths and called ancestors demons because of spiritual burnout. In some cases the severity can lead to something that resembles a mental illness. […]
• EP41: When You Doubt Your Spiritual Journey 08.11.2023 1ó 38p

  The vast majority of us will eventually find ourselves in some form of a crossroads in our spiritual journey. When we get to this point the decisions that we are faced with can sometimes make us doubt everything that we hold as not only true but also important about our beliefs. Can you think of a time in your life when you got to this point? I spoke to Gogo Moyo about how she dealt with the paradigm shifts that she faced in her journey as a Healer, a Gobela as well as one of the most prominent public figures within the spirituality space.
• EP40: SPIRITUALITY IN A WORLD FALLING APART 14.06.2023 1ó
• EP39: THE JOURNEY KWANTU LIVE 31.05.2023 2ó 5p
• EP38: Into The Ancestral Realm 12.04.2023 9p

  Special Announcement!
• ep37: Spirituality In The Corporate World Part 2 15.03.2023 55p

  But the topic of spirituality in the workplace is still a very broad one in terms of individual experiences and I was curious as to how others have navigated their encounters with spirit and spirituality as well as the complexities of spiritual purpose. So I spoke to Gogo Jebhu who spent years in the corporate space and has since transitioned from being an HR practitioner to now being a full-time Gobela.
• EP36: Spirituality In The Corporate World 01.03.2023 1ó 24p

  The nature of African spirituality is such that it involves not just the acknowledgment of the existence of the spiritual realm but also the existence of amadlozi and spiritual forces and the individualized encounters that we have with them in our daily lives. What is strange though is that as African spirituality continues to grow […]
• EP35 | When Feminism Meets African Spirituality 08.02.2023 1ó 18p
• EP34: DOES CHANGING COUNTRIES AFFECT YOUR SENSE OF IDENTITY PART 2 15.09.2022 1ó 10p

  This episode is a continuation of the topic asking Does changing countries affect your identity? It is part of a series that deals with the question of whether or not our identity affects our spirituality. I encourage you to make time to listen to the previous 3 episodes to get a better understanding of how this topic has evolved. In this episode, I'm going to be speaking to Buhlebezwe Siwani. She is a healer and an artist who works predominantly in the medium of performance and installations. She was raised in Johannesburg and due to the nomadic nature of her upbringing, she has also lived in the EC and KZN.  She now lives and works between Amsterdam and Cape Town.
• EP33: DOES CHANGING COUNTRIES AFFECT YOUR SENSE OF IDENTITY 31.08.2022 1ó 6p

  What happens to your identity as a black South African when you no longer live within the socioeconomic or political or even the cultural norms and criminal violence that defines so much of who we believe we are? If you are a black South African who is or has been living abroad for some time how do you define who you are? To get some perspective on this I spoke to a few South Africans who are currently living in other countries to try to understand what their lived experience has been in how being away affects how they see and engage with their sense of identity. I figured that this topic would need more than one person and also cannot be tackled from a strictly spiritual perspective so it will be a mini-series talking to different people from different countries. The first person I will be talking to is Lerato Shadi. Lerato Shadi is a visual and performance artist whose work challenges common assumptions to critique Western notions of history and make visible that which is invisible or overlooked. She works across video, performance, and installations. Lerato was Born in Mahikeng, South Africa and now lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
• EP32: How Does Our Identity Affect Spirituality? 20.07.2022 1ó 46p

  So I want to know how does our identity, how does our sense of self affect how we navigate our beliefs and how we respond to the world in general. I want understand specifically how does the way that we perceive ourselves manifest the lives and socioeconomic challenges that we face today. I spoke to Banele Rewo who is an entrepreneur, author and content creator who has a particular interest in the psychology behind the township economy.