Why are you digging there, Haibo Mama?

At around midnight, the family heard excavating in their yard while they were sound asleep.
They discovered a mother and her little child digging when they went outside to investigate.

According to a family representative, the woman was unable to react when asked what she was doing.

While the woman wasn't speaking to them, the family called the Tembisa community in Ekurhuleni for assistance.

"She began speaking when she saw the neighborhood getting ready to burn her with tires. She continued, "We still don't understand her justification for digging in our yard so late as night.

The residents claim that the woman has a history of doing bad things and that this is not the first time she has been caught.

She allegedly told the residents she was instructed by a sangoma to do dig and that what she was doing wouldn't affect the family and instead, she was protecting them.

It is said the woman also alleged that this was the only way to remove a tokoloshe that is roaming in the yard.

She further asked the family and the community to forgive her.

But while the community was busy questioning the woman and threatening to burn her with tyres, a resident reportedly called the cops.

And the cops arrived just in time to save the woman from the angry crowd.

Sangoma Mkhulu Ntokozo Mthethwa said according to his bones, this woman used muthi on someone a long time ago, but it turned against her.

"Now she keeps going to izangoma who all tell her she has to dig for whatever she can find in people’s yards," said Mkhulu.

He advised the affected family to get a sangoma who will cleanse their home and put a protective spell.

Tembisa police spokeswoman Sergeant Patricia Mgijima urged the community not to take the law into their own hands.

"We always deal with mob attack cases and it never ends good for the community," she said.