In South Africa, practitioners of traditional medicine, including herbalists, midwives, and faith healers who claim to speak to ancestors, have historically practiced openly and freely. But the ...

KATLEHONG, South Africa, Aug 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - S moke swirled around Badanile Maci as she crouched on all fours, clapping and chanting with half a dozen other sangomas - South African ...

Cyril Naidoo stands at the front of a crowded conference room, talking about a concept in family medicine called the iceberg theory. “When a patient comes to us with a headache, our job is to try and ...

A sangoma’s intervention helped police crack the case of seven-year-old Nhlalwenhle Magwaza, whose remains were found in Mbumbulu weeks after she went missing. A relative who sought spiritual ...

Bare-foot, with rattles on his ankles and wearing a colourful beaded ceremonial skirt, a white boy with short blond hair makes shamanic-like dance moves to a frantic drum beat. Kyle Todd is a ...

Multi-award-winning singer Kelly Khumalo recently addressed rumours that she is a sangoma. A sangoma is a traditional healer believed to have a connection with ancestral spirits. They are believed to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even though we live in the modern world, every continent — despite having pharmacies and doctors — has its traditional medicine ...

South Africa has for decades grappled with the scourge of child mutilation and abuse cases in which body parts, especially those of children, are used in brutal rituals purported to enhance wealth or ...