Vuya!Pagan

Age: 36
Path: Heathen / Pagan
Location: KZN South Coast
Years practicing: 20

I was going to re-write my bio but hey its hilarious (and true & still valid) so here it will stay until I tire of it:

I tend to be very hard on the fluffy-type pagans, and have incredibly strong opinions regarding those who would rape and pillage the Mystery traditions, I am unafraid to speak my mind, and would hope that more people speak theirs. I enjoy the diversity of the Pagan community, but do wish that people will gain a little more maturity and respect when deciding on what to call themselves. To be a great self-trained Witch is so much better than being a stupid fraud - the day will come when others will see you for who and what you really are - lying is pointless.

I started South Africa's first Pagan-orientated Publishing house, called Anubis Publishing and produced the first run of Vuya! Pagan's South African Pagan Almanac for 2007 as well as a series of blank notebooks with Pagan themes and other printed products. there are now a number of excellant Houses doing publishing and printing and I support them in their hard work.

I've been privilleged to be involved with the inception of the first organisation to accept the challenge of defending the constitutional rights of South African Pagans; although I am no longer a member of SAPRA, I support their mission wholeheartedly.

I have a host of very scary stories about the early days of public Paganism in South Africa and look forward to my senile days when I can rant and rave openly about the rubbish that has passed for the Craft and the Morons who've called themselves its leaders. I delight in seeing the little widdies who in the years gone by have crossed my path, attempting to gain entrance to my Covens and who now fabricate the most extraordinary stories about their "pagan past" all the while forgetting that there were those of us who were there, working, watching, doing.

There are a handful of Pagans in South Africa that I consider to be elders of our Path and Guardians of the Way; I will mention no names, because that is not what it was ever about. I honor you as living ancestors; we are blessed to be living in the same time as you.

I am a qualified paramedic and help my Heathen partner Turumares run his First Aid Training company.