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The Traditional Health Practitioners Act No. 22 (2007) of South Africa: Its history, resolutions and implementations in perspective (Part 1: History)
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2016)
Background: Years of South African legislation on traditional healing practices preceded the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No. 22, 2007). The first laws date as far back as 1895. It seems as if the intention ...
The Traditional Health Practitioners Act (No 22 of 2007): a South African Constitutional mishap?
(Journal for cultural studies, 2016)
Background:The Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No 22, 2007), which elicits controversy in the South African healthcare and public sector since proclamation, went untested through the legislature, driven inside ...
Did muthi, ritual and witchcraft murders happen only in the Dark Medieval Ages of South Africa? Think twice!
(WordPress, 2016)
Background: Muthi, ritual and witchcraft murders seem to be inherent pathologies of a certain section of the South African population. Various determinants contribute to the generation and endurance of such behaviour. These ...
How and why bewitching and wickedness are created and maintained within small, specific segments of the South African population
(WordPress, 2016)
Background: Beliefs in the supernatural are maintained by strengthening the evils which the witch or the bewitched person can do to his or her fellows. This system is perpetuated by the repetition of stories of how the ...
Does the traditional healer have a religious distinctiveness in Modern-day South Africa?
(WordPress, 2016)
Research alludes that the South African traditional healer is not a medical identity, but origin from the old Traditional African Religious Culture as a traditional religious-healer; a spiritual remnant from a previous, ...
Is the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (No 22 of 2007) in conflict with the Witchcraft Suppression Act (No 3 of 1957) in present-day South Africa?
(WordPress, 2016)
Background: The Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No 22, 2007) to regulate the traditional health fraternity had been driven since the 1960s and became a reality after the 1994 political change in South Africa. ...
Do many South Africans still believe today in the supernatural, bad magic, witchcraft, witches and evil demons?
(WordPress, 2016)
Aims:The aim of the study is to determine if a significant number of South Africans believe in the supernatural. Method: The exploratory and descriptive method was used to research the belief system regarding the supernatural, ...
The Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 (2007): A godsend or an act that spells doom for South Africa's healthcare?
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2017)
Background: South Africa's development and growth in healthcare since the 1900s is phenomenal, but certain present-day healthcare policies such as the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No 22, 2007), could jeopardize ...