WATCH | Palesa Madisakwane says she is ‘at peace’ after denouncing ubungoma

Palesa Madisakwane has shot up trends lists after she publicly "renounced" ubungoma. 

The actress and media personality recently took to her timeline to share a video of herself tearing and burning an ancestral fabric as a symbol of her turning away from the spiritual practice.

Speaking to TshisaLIVE, Palesa said the material she was tearing in the video was one she had bought after seeing it in a dream and had been instructed by a sangoma to pursue it for her initiation.  

"I've always been a born-again child of God, but in life you back slide. After losing my job at Generations, which is one of the biggest jobs I've had in my career, things went downward. I got divorced, I lost my houses, I lost my cars, everything was not going well and at that time I felt I needed to seek help," she said. 

"When I got advice from different people I was advised to go hlola, to check what's really happening, maybe there might be some witchcraft. As a mother, as a woman concerned about my life and the future of my kids I started consulting to find out why things were happening to me because things were not going right at all." 

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Palesa recalls being told she needed to be initiated, that she had a praying spirit, and that someone had bewitched her when she consulted with different sangomas. 

Palesa said there were times she would have dreams about having a calling.

"I realised going to these places I was opening up other doors of all kinds of spirits I wasn't raised to believe in. Those are the spirits that have been following me and I needed to come out and denounce them and break the covenant, and now I am following the word of God. I am still not perfect. I am still a sinner but I am being perfected in Christ. I am not fighting, shaming or looking down on anyone who has chosen that way. God has given us a choice, 

"I have taken it upon myself to say I am going the Jesus way. Even if it happens that I fall tomorrow, I pray God will lift me up in the way He wants me to go. I am openly denouncing these spirits that have been following me."

Describing the chapter she is in now, Palesa said she had found peace in her spiritual journey.  

"I am so peaceful. At first, I used to stress about my work, my business. There would be days I did not get certain things. Whether my business goes up or down, at the end of the day, I will say I found peace in Christ. I sleep at night, I don't sleep with my eyes open."