Turn for Swazi healers
NZPA-AFP Johannesburg
Swaziland’s traditional healers, the. Tinyanga, commonly known as witchdoctors, for . the first time will work in the country’s, hospitals' and clinics alongside medical doctors and nurses later this year, the South African Press Association reports. The announcement was made at a meeting of all the tiny mountain kingdom’s thousands of Tinyanga by the president of the Swaziland Association of Traditional Healers, Nhlavana Maseko.
Mr Maseko told the meeting, held in Manzini, 60km south-west of Mbabane,, that the Government had now given the association the goahead.
Mr Maseko has spent several months over the last few years working with a team of West German specialists, both in West Germany and Swaziland, researching the medicinal powers of extracts from various Swazi herbs and plants.
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