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Multi-talented visual artist Madoda Magazi has taught himself how to extract marijuana oil from cannabis to heal various sicknesses. As a visual artist he says he has always been fascinated by nature and believes that people should heal themselves with nature.
“Our people need to be taught how to heal themselves. I think anyone can use cannabis for ailments such as painful waist, painful knees, headaches, and many other sicknesses. Our people must know how to make cloth from this plant. It is possible. Information is in our hands. – Says Madoda Magazi.
This man of many talents says the controversy around marijuana and how the plant had always been used by close friends of his sparked his curiosity to research what benefits the plant might have. Knowing that possession of this freely growing plant is criminal offence limited him from experimenting with the herb. “There had been huge talks about this plant. I remember in parliament the South President considering to decriminalise the plant, and finally people were allowed to pant the herb for medicinal purposes.” Says Magazi.
Magazi says he had always heard people say Marijuana does not cause cancer but heals it, he then decided to take a five year research and look for the benefits of the plant. With the help of the internet, books and the knowledge he even got from his high school biology books and from asking people who had more knowledge about the plant. He managed to put together information of how to work with the plant. Magazi says ‘’I heard from people like Prof.MK Mazibuko and many other close friends from different places. I went for more information from the internet and magazines like True Love. Where they showed me how to separate oil from water. How to grow species with strong genes.”
Magazi says when he is not using nature to heal people he is healing himself through art. “My first love is drawing, painting comes next. I print T-shirts when time allows. Sculpting is something I do to escape all the madness. I design leather handbags and clothes I basically draw portraits, paint landscapes and recycle plastic into sculpture. I do this to immortalise the people especially musicians, chiefs, kings and political leaders.” Magazi’s work has been sold in an art gallery in Harmunus, Western Cape. He has also been to the Makhanda arts festival.
If it has to be done using your hands and embracing nature Madoda Magazi will do it. This talented man also creates murals that beautify public spaces and bare information and awareness. He has worked in Television creating children’s animated cartoons in 3D in a company run by Dumisani Gumbi and Issabel Rourke,
