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Survival of Indigenous African Healing Systems in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the revelation of the status of traditional medicine on which a high number of users depend, despite its historical negation in South Africa. This scenario suggests the need to evaluate the current narrow cultural perspective in the health sector and consider an intervention that will promote respect for diverse cultural practices that provide healthcare services to diverse social groups with their respective moral codes. In this chapter, the researcher argues that the notion of integration of diverse medical practices is a nonstarter and a subtle way of reinsertion of the status quo. In conclusion, this chapter argues that the historical experiences reveal that each medical practice is embedded in its social order; thus, the concept of a plural healthcare system becomes a viable intervention to put an end to the historical injustices against the izinyanga and their practice in this instance.
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