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‘Healers are part of Covid solution’

Coronavirus Jan Bornman - 7 May 2020

Traditional healers feel they have been excluded from the national response to the coronavirus, despite most South Africans consulting them for a range of ailments including depression

The Portfolio: Sethembiso Zulu

Article Sethembiso Zulu - 13 Dec 2019

My photographs make for detailed stories and use symbols that are meant to be read and analysed with an open mind.

Hawks bust cannabis lab

Article Tshegofatso Mathe - 15 Nov 2019

The Canapax chain owner, who claims to be a traditional healer, has been arrested

Abuse taints traditional healing

Article Nation Nyoka - 27 Sep 2019

After being raped and abused repeatedly, a sangoma trainee reported her mentor to the police — only to be shunned

All the knowledge we do not know yet

Article Staff Reporter - 14 Dec 2018

"Recovering ancient hidden knowledges, as long as we are responsible with them, is important considering how many ills there are in our society."

[PODCAST] Each one teach one: Doctors, traditional healers tackle psychiatric illness

Podcasts Bhekisisa Team Author - 13 Dec 2018

Medical doctors and traditional healers often struggle to trust each other. But in this rural KZN community they learned how to work together.

This land is our chemist

Article Lucas Ledwaba - 28 Sep 2018

A group of men harvest medicinal plants, which they then process and sell, but it’s a tough trade

Traditional innovation

Article Tamsin Oxford - 29 Jun 2018

Innovation Award: Corporate Organisation for innovations and their research and/or development by a team or an individual

Traditional medicine in the academy is a reality

Article Staff Reporter - 7 Oct 2016

The UKZN traditional medicine laboratory aims to become a centre of excellence

Sangomas learn to meld muti with conventional medicine

Article Staff Reporter - 3 Mar 2016

Traditional and Western healers team up to treat patients with HIV and tuberculosis because many people consult more than one health system.

Sangomas’ power challenges state

Article Staff Reporter - 18 Jun 2015

An anthropologist schooled in traditional healing, Professor Robert Thornton, says it is deeply rooted in ideas and not science.

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The fashion designer who felt the call of the ancestors

Article Staff Reporter - 18 Jun 2015

Karabo Finger was called to be a traditional healer when her mother, the family elder and a spiritual medium, died and connected her to her ancestors.

Mining a threat to holy caves

Article Chantelle Benjamin 1 - 27 Feb 2015

An Australian company plans to exploit the place of ancestors and healing at Madimatle Mountain.

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Make way for the wise man of Winterveldt

Article Staff Reporter - 22 Jan 2015

What kind of a book would the biography of the leader of Winterveldt, arguably the largest informal settlement in the southern hemisphere, make?

Prudence Mabele: “I have seen ARVs save lives”

Article Staff Reporter - 29 Nov 2013

Mabele helped lead the fight for antiretrovirals in SA. A memorial service will be held for her today. This was her last interview with Bhekisisa.

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