Traditional healers stand up for people living with albinism
Members of the Traditional Healers Organisation (THO) for Africa say their work does not in any way involve either killing or the use of other peoples body parts to make muthi.
LOCAL traditional healers stood together in a peace march against the killing of people with albinism.
Departments such as Sukuma Sakhe, the Department of Environmental Affairs, and the Albinism Society of South Africa all took a stand against the cruel murders of people with albinism for muthi purposes.
Members of the Traditional Healers Organisation (THO) for Africa said that they wanted to clarify that their work does not in any way involve either killing or the use of other peoples body parts to make muthi concoctions.
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“We have been, and still are, working with various departments to ensure that our practices foster a good reputation and that we work in accordance with the South African laws and regulations,” members of THO said.
A memorandum of grievances against the kidnapping and killing of people with albinism, the poaching of rhinos as well as other forms of cruelty to the environment, including pleas for various departments to try and understand the work being done by traditional healers, and to be willing to learn more where they don’t, was handed over to the AbaQulusi municipality’s mayor, Jerry Sibiya.
The mayor said that he had great respect for traditional healers and the work that they do as he, too, comes from a home that still practices traditional customs.
He promised to look into the requests that were made.
The march then headed back down Church Street to Cecil Emmett Hall where the different organisations discussed how they would be working together to combat challenges.
