The future registration of the White traditional healer in terms of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No 22, 2007) in South Africa

Conclusion Although the Traditional Health Practitioners Ac t No 22 (2007) emphasizes a traditional philosophy and underwrites unique practice rules and customs for the traditional health practitioner, it harbours, although vaguely and unspecific, descriptions that point to the end of the exclusively holistic traditional approach to healing. It would be poss ible in future to insert medical science into the traditional healer’s healing principles. The White person, without the ‘calling’ and not necessarily underwriting the pre-modern traditional philosophy, its customs and habits, can surely be a traditional health practitioner under the auspices of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 of 2007 in South Africa.
Source: Australasian Medical Journal - AMJ - Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research