Jackson Hlungwani (born 1923 - 20 January 2010) was a South African sculptor, priest, and founder of the Yesu Galeliya One Aposto in Sanyoni Alt and Omega in New Jerusalem, a site located in Mbhokota in the Limpopo.
Jackson Hlunwani was born in the year 1923, birth date unknown, to a Tsonga family in a Nkanyani Village in present-day Limpopo.
Upon his return, Hlungwani started a journey to find inner healing, which led him to become an involved member and later a priest of the Zion Christian Church from 1944 to 1978.
An electric heater burned beside him, toasting his ulcered leg where, many years before, the arrow of Satan had entered and lodged in his flesh, then turned into a snake.
He told me this within minutes of meeting me, without inhibition or any doubt about the significance of his experience.” [1][2] This is an example of how Hlungwani drew on multiple cultures for sources of inspiration and how he aimed to evoke spiritual worlds through symbolism with his sculptures.