After decades in the shadows, SA’s traditional healers, or sangomas, are modernising and becoming big business, raising questions about the need for strict regulation, reports [s]Business Day[/s]. Data about how many actually visit traditional healers are hard to come by, but it is clear millions of South Africans regularly consult the tens of thousands of practitioners operating across the country, some of whom have embraced Skype to deliver treatments. However, the report says, the sector is almost unregulated, leading to uncertainty about the efficacy of medicines and fears of abuse by quacks and charlatans.
[link url=http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/health/2014/04/09/sa-traditional-medicine-comes-under-the-microscope]Full Business Day report[/link]