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- A Stuijt
- Retired South African medical journalist, ex-Sunday Times of Johannesburg.
SA university offers Witchdoctoring degree
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Wits started training first 100 sangomas in Sept 2009
“The desire of many of South Africa’s 180,000 traditional healers to be absorbed into the mainstream health system was given a boost earlier this year when Wits University launched a degree for sangomas. March 2009 The Times of SA article
A bachelors or masters degree in indigenous knowledge systems is on offer at the university’s school of medicine. Once qualified, traditional healers will be able to diagnose diseases such as HIV/Aids, tuberculosis and diabetes, and refer patients to state hospitals.
They will also be taught how to sell their medicines and open their own surgeries.
Professor Gundidza Mazuru, of the school’s pharmacy department, said Wits would start training its first 100 students in September 2009. “Our first intake 
will be traditional healers from all over the Southern African Development Community,” he said, adding that they would share some classes with medical students.
“I will be one of the professors who will be teaching them about manufacturing their products, clinical tests, packaging, and the regulations governing manufacturing and distribution before they could think of putting their products on the shelves.”
27-million South Africans use muti in a R2-billion-a-year industry:
The course was launched after demands by a gathering of 1400 traditional healers from across South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Lesotho to formalise their status. Traditional Healers’ Association spokeswoman Phephsile Maseko accused the government of “dragging its feet” despite the fact that ‘27 million South Africans use traditional medicine, which contributes R2-billion a year to the economy”. (March 2009 The Times of SA article)
Ritual sacrifice of an animal at launch of courses, and at graduation:
Wikipedia wrote: ‘A sangoma is a practitioner of herbal medicine, divination and counselling in traditional Nguni (Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele and Swazi) societies of Southern Africa (effectively an African shaman). The philosophy is based on a belief in ancestral spirits. Both men and women can be called by the ancestors (a consequence of refusing the calling is usually ongoing physical or mental illness), though sangomas are usually female. A trainee sangoma (or twaza) trains under another sangoma, usually for a period of years, usually performing humbling service in the community. At times in the training, and for the graduation, a ritual sacrifice of an animal is performed (usually a chicken, a goat or a cow). The spilling of this blood is meant to seal the bond between the ancestors and the sangoma. ‘ http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=1033796
African occult allows cruel live slaughter of animals – and live sacrifices of people
On 4 December 2009 in a court room in Pietermaritzburg (IOL/PDF), a judgement was issued by Judge Nic van der Reyden, dismissing an Application by Animal Rights Africa Trust (ARA), which sought to restrain Zulu King Zwelithini from causing or permitting a bull to be slaughtered, or in any way ill-treated, at the Ikweshwama ceremony, also known as the Festival of First Fruits. The judgement was hailed, with the screams of ‘Amandla’, as a victory for the Zulu nation.
On 5 December, President Jacob Zuma and King Zwelithini attended the Festival of Fruits, where the Bull was killed barehanded, taking about 20 minutes to die. King Zwelithini stated umkhosi wokweshwarna was a “wonderful” ritual, and it was “despicable” to suggest that Zulu’s had no respect for animal rights (PDF).
On7 December, Justice Malala disagreed in his judgement, which stated that Culture Is No Excuse for Cruelty (Times/PDF).
According to Word Wright, in The SPCA, SA Law, 2010 World Cup & the Planned Sacrifice of Animals, the laws against Savage Animal Sacrifice are that the sacrifice should be done: “in a humane way as is reasonable within the particular religious or cultural values of the person effecting the slaughter and subject to the requirements of the SPCA.”
However, Word Wright’s ‘humane’ and the African occult cultures definitions of ‘humane’ clearly do not agree. President Zuma and King Zwelithini viewed this ritual as described below, and praised it as ‘wonderful’.
“The animal’s legs are tethered together and it is flipped on the side. You can hear the moaning, while held down by two or three people while a fourth one is standing by with a small dish and a fifth person wields the knife. They slit the throat, but the animal does not die. It screams and struggles, trying to throw off the assailant. He stumbles backwards and comes for the animal again, cutting some more. Its eyelids are still batting and the eyes are filled with panic and fear as he hacks away at the crature’s throat. The animal continues struggling weakly as the man with the dish approaches it to catch the blood spurting from the arteries. It still is not dead. “ There is no post- or pre-incision stunning. It will take a while before the animal will have bled enough to die – much longer than the 51 second YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaxRE44Erss&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaxRE44Erss&feature=player_embeddedHuman sacrifices are carried out in the same cruel way to harvest ‘body-parts” but these ‘official sangomas” claim it’s ‘not part of their culture’.
- http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2009/12/two-men-get-life-prison-for-human.html
- http://www.sapsjournalonline.gov.za/dynamic/journal_dynamic.aspx?pageid=414&jid=10428
Whites’ body parts also ‘ harvested live for muti ‘ - names, details:
- KOEKEMOER, SAREL, 69, 20090909 BULTFONTEIN AH PRETORIA NORTH – BADLY MUTILATED http://www.beeld.com/Content/Suid-Afrika/Nuus/1928/4de002454c034b859c2d8b850e127e1c/11-09-2009-02-49/Hulle_het_hom_regtig_verniel%E2%80%99
- LOTTER, 77, LOTTER; ALICE 57, HELEN F MOTHER/DAUGHTER 20090306 Allenridge FS killed by glass shards in vaginas, muti murders: “Kill the Boer” ritually smeared with victims’ blood at crime scene http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2009/11/genocidal-black-gangs-target-sa_30.html
- STEENKAMP, GERRIT 39 m 19970813 BOTHAVILLE FARMER/MUSICIAN: KILLED FOR MUTI TWO BLACK MEN GUILTY http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2009/09/unreported-farm-murder-gerrit-steenkamp.html
- UNNAMED DUTCH TOURIST’s HAND, BREASTS CUT OFF AT CAR ACCIDENT AND OFFERED FOR SALE AS MUTI TO SANGOMA 20090621 ACORNHOEK MP – NAMES OF VICTIMS WITHHELD – TWO ARRESTS http://censorbugbear-reports.blogspot.com/2009/11/farm-murders-names-dates-sources.html
- 2009-03-27 Jan van Wyk, 82, penis cut off while alive -- mutilated for ‘traditional medicine’ on farm Vierfontein Viljoenskroon, Free State http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2494684,00.html
- 2009-03-27 Basie Venter, 65, penis cut off while alive - mutilated for 'traditional medicine' on farm Vierfontein, Viloenskroon, Free State http://jv.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-975_2494684,00.html
- 20020212 Catherine Watkins (21) found dead windpipe torn out, muti murder, Potchefstroom, NW http://www.100megspop2.com/crimebusters/FarmVictims.html
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