SOUTH AFRICAN HERBALIST WALKS AROUND LITERALLY DRESSED IN MONEY
Michael Andile
Dlamini, a successful herbalist from Nongoma, South Africa, has
become known as Mzimb’okhalimali (a body dripping with money) after he
started wearing a suit made of real banknotes, to show off his wealth.
Dlamini started
working as a healer three years ago, after finally listening to the voices of
his ancestors.
The 33-year-old claims that when he was 12, his ancestors spoke
to him in his dreams, telling him which trees and plants to mix remedies out
of, but he chose to ignore them. Then, in 2011, he started having these
weird dreams again, where his ancestors would tell him to go into the forest to
gather plants and roots for herbal remedies. He started filling ill, and had
his house broken into, and after seeing a ‘sangoma’ (healer) who scolded him
for not listening to his visions, Dlamini finally decided to become a
herbalist.
It turned out to be
the best thing he ever did, as his potions and creams became insanely popular
from the very beginning. Dlamini claims he makes between R15,000 ($1,000) and
R20,000 ($1,500) a day by selling herbal products, which include Pincode,
a herbal concoction to boost sex drive, a “lucky soap” that removes pimples and
stretchmarks, and “blessed water”.
But despite being famous all throughout South
Africa for his herbal remedies, Andile Dlamini is even better known for
his unusual way of flaunting his fortune – by walking around in a “money suit”
made up of hundreds of R100 ($7) and R200 ($14) notes pinned to regular
clothes. He started wearing it in 2014, and hasn’t stopped doing it since. READ MORE
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