Season One: Episode 5 - THE WHITE SANGOMA

Annelie de Wet was a ‘corporate princess’ with a good job in e-commerce, a house, friends - a pretty ordinary life.. Then, one day 13 years ago, she found herself strangely drawn to a woman she saw walking along the road in her neighbourhood in Cape Town – so much so that she tracked her down in four more places on that same day.

As she did so, she felt something shift deep within her consciousness.

What was happening to her? A friend suggested that, perhaps, she had a calling…..

In the fifth edition of First Person, Marianne Thamm maps Annelie’s extraordinary journey – through physical hardship and psychological frenzy - into the heart of one of South Africa’s most fundamental - and most enigmatic - traditions.