The Traditional Health Practitioners Bill
South Africa’s 200,000 traditional healers are to be officially recognized as a health care professionals under new legislation passed by parliament on Thursday.

The health ministry estimates that close to 70 percent of South Africans consult traditional healers who remain prominent figures in Zulu, Xhosa and other black African cultures.

“Under apartheid, we were referred to as witch doctors, which is something that is opposite to what we do,” says Gaobepe, a sangoma, a healer whose distinctiveness lies in her spiritual link with the ancestors. “We concentrate on curing. Witches are people who manipulate people’s health.”

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