UNEMPLOYED Celumusa Mabizela (36) needs to get up early in the morning to go and look for a job. But for the past four months, he has been sleeping late – he is too tired to get up.

And it’s all because a kota-eating tokoloshe with bad manners is keeping him awake!

Celumusa, from Orange Farm extension 2 in the Vaal, told Daily Sun the tokoloshe sits in the corner next to his wardrobe eating a kota. It chews so loudly that he cannot sleep.

He said the tokoloshe has big, scary eyes.

“It wears nothing. It chews and smiles at me – looking directly at me with its big eyes.

“Sometimes the tokoloshe comes when I am hungry. The kota smells so good, I sometimes wish I could ask for a bite!

“But I’m afraid the kota could do bad things to me if I eat it,” said the father of two.

Celumusa said the tokoloshe didn’t visit him every night, but that he was tired of it and needed urgent help.

“A sangoma once gave me muthi to sprinkle in my room. The creature stayed away for a week, but soon returned.”

Sangoma Jabulani Mthimkhulu said the tokoloshe was sent by evil people who didn’t want Celumusa to do anything with his life.

“They want him to do nothing but stay at home without work for the rest of his life. He needs a powerful sangoma to cleanse him properly.”