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The insufficient formulation and vagueness of the definition 'Traditional Health Practitioner' as included in the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No 22, 2007) of South Africa
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2016)
Background: The main focus of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 (2007) is the regulation of traditional healing in South Africa. The role player who has to deliver this traditional health service to the public ...
The traditional health practitioners Act No 22 (2007) of South Africa: its history, resolutions and implementation in perspective (Part 2: Resolutions)
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2016)
Background: Before the promulgation of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 (2007), there was no formal guideline or training culture to steer traditional healing in South Africa. Training was and is still mostly ...
The Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 (2007) of South Africa: its history, resolutions and implementations in perspective (Part 3: Implementations)
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2016)
Background: The registration of an alleged 200,000 or more unregulated traditional healers in terms of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No 22, 2007) seems a challenging task. Section 1 of the Act prescribes ...
The unwritten new practice rights of the traditional health practitioner as stipulated by the Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 (2007) of South Africa
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2016)
Background:In 2007, a practice directive was issued for the new legal entity traditional health practitioner with the promulgation of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (No 22 of 2007) in the Republic of South Africa. ...
The Traditional Health Practitioners Act No. 22 (2007) of South Africa: Its history, resolutions and implementations in perspective (Part 1: History)
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2016)
Background: Years of South African legislation on traditional healing practices preceded the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No. 22, 2007). The first laws date as far back as 1895. It seems as if the intention ...
The Traditional Health Practitioners Act (No 22 of 2007): a South African Constitutional mishap?
(Journal for cultural studies, 2016)
Background:The Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No 22, 2007), which elicits controversy in the South African healthcare and public sector since proclamation, went untested through the legislature, driven inside ...
The present-day scope of practice and services of the traditional healer in South Africa
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2016)
Background:The scope of practice of the traditional healer in South Africa is not guided or circumscribed by any statutory mandate at present. The traditional healer's practice and services are currently based on and driven ...
The present and future roles of Traditional Health Practitioners within the formal healthcare sector of South Africa, as guided by the Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 (2007)
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2016)
Background: The promulgation of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 (2007) was seen as the long awaited start-up of the traditional healing profession in South Africa. Act No 22 (2007) was strongly politically ...
The present-day diagnosis and treatment model of the South African traditional healer
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2016)
Background:At present, no formal guides or curricula exist to direct and instruct diagnosis and treatment in the practice of the traditional healer. To gain knowledge of how the traditional healer makes diagnoses and offers ...
Are there 200,000 and more traditional healers practicing in South Africa?
(Australasian Medical Journal, 2016)
Background:The promulgation of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 (2007) was guided to a great extent by the allegation that there were 200,000 and more traditional healers practicing in South Africa. This ...