Limpopo University hands out academic qualifications certificates to 100 witchdoctors

Limpopo University hands out academic certificates to 100+ 'traditional healers' (witchdoctors) SABC News reports that more than 100 traditional health practitioners from Limpopo have been honoured with academic certificates by the University of Limpopo. The University and the "African Religion, Culture and Health Organisation" spokesmen commented that 'educational backgrounds of traditional health practitioners serves as an important step towards transforming this form of healing. Dr Jan Ramothwala believes awarding certificates to the healers will boost their standing in their respective communities. “The whole idea came about as a result of the practice itself not necessarily linked to education so resultantly the practice itself has suffered a great deal when it comes to development,” he stated. The healers all come from the five districts of the province. Some of them say their skill, which only the chosen ones have, is about community building and the healing of society. http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/8a86488042047883adadad1c2eddf908/Limp -------------- Five judges on the Labour Court of Appeal in SA have ruled that employers have to accept the medical certificates for sick-leave provided by witchdoctors on an equal basis to those of Western Medical Practitioners. They ruled that Kievits Kroon Country Estate, Pretoria unjustly dismissed their worker Mrs Johanna Mmoledi because she had taken a month's 'unapproved leave'. She said in her submission to the Arbitration Commission that her employer 'knew she had to stay away because she was 'had to attend a course as traditional healer because she received this order in visions from her forefathers.'The Appeal court judges ruled that employers 'must take seriously the adherents to traditional beliefs' problems with 'vicions of forefather ghosts' and similar traditions." A trained traditional healer had given her a letter telling her that Ms Mmoledi 'was getting orders in visions and calls from forefathers which she must obey'. Ms Mmoledi submitted that Kievits Kroon should have accepted that letter from her traditional healer as they would a medical certificate from 'conventional doctors' and should have given her legal sick leave. The Arbitration commission, the Labour Court and the Labour Appeal Court now have all ruled that Ms Mmoledi was treated unfairly and dismissed without legal cause. Labour Appeal Court judges F. Brand, A. Cachalia, L. Leach, M. Wallis and R. Zondi noted in their ruling that up to eighty percent of all South Africans relied on 'traditional healers for their physical, mental and emotional health'. The courts are unable to judge the acceptability, logic and understanding of this particular belief-system. The only subject the courts should involve themselves with is that the involved person's beliefs were not used for hidden purposes.' Kievits Kroon should have accepted the woman's tradititional healer's 'medical certificate' as being on an equal basis to a 'conventional medical certificate', they ruled. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boere-Krisis-Aksie-BKA/116298045063416?fref=ts