Browsing Faculty of Humanities by Author "10056394 - Louw, Gabriel Petrus"
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Are the fees that the traditional health practitioner charges generally lower than that of the medical practitioner?
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (Australasian Medical Journal, 2017)Background: The cost of healthcare is a matter of concern for the public and the authorities. When a new healthcare provider enters the healthcare market, specifically the private sector, it is crucial to know if the fees ... -
Are there 200,000 and more traditional healers practicing in South Africa?
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (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 ... -
Did muthi, ritual and witchcraft murders happen only in the Dark Medieval Ages of South Africa? Think twice!
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (WordPress, 2016)Background: Muthi, ritual and witchcraft murders seem to be inherent pathologies of a certain section of the South African population. Various determinants contribute to the generation and endurance of such behaviour. These ... -
Do many South Africans still believe today in the supernatural, bad magic, witchcraft, witches and evil demons?
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (WordPress, 2016)Aims:The aim of the study is to determine if a significant number of South Africans believe in the supernatural. Method: The exploratory and descriptive method was used to research the belief system regarding the supernatural, ... -
Do the majority of South Africans regularly consult traditional healers?
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (Australasian Medical Journal, 2016)Background: The statutory recognition of traditional healers as healthcare practitioners in South Africa in terms of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act 22 of 2007 is based on various assumptions, opinions and ... -
Does the traditional healer have a modern medical identity in South Africa?
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (Australasian Medical Journal, 2017)Background: Research supports the view that the South African traditional healer does not hold a modern medical identity, but developed from the traditional African religions and cultural environment as a kind of caregiver. ... -
Does the traditional healer have a religious distinctiveness in Modern-day South Africa?
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (WordPress, 2016)Research alludes that the South African traditional healer is not a medical identity, but origin from the old Traditional African Religious Culture as a traditional religious-healer; a spiritual remnant from a previous, ... -
Estimated annual incomes of South African traditional healers as generated by their practices and sales of their pre-modern traditional health products for 2015/2016
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (Australasian Medical Journal, 2017)Background: In South Africa, it is an accepted fact that the main role players in the manufacturing and selling of so called traditional medicine (TAM) are traditional healers. The Traditional Health Practitioners Act No ... -
How and why bewitching and wickedness are created and maintained within small, specific segments of the South African population
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (WordPress, 2016)Background: Beliefs in the supernatural are maintained by strengthening the evils which the witch or the bewitched person can do to his or her fellows. This system is perpetuated by the repetition of stories of how the ... -
Is the dissolution of the Afrikaner tribe a century away? Part 5: The vicious cycle of revenge and counter-revenge around apartheid
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Is the dissolution of the Afrikaner-tribe only a century away? Part 1: Who is the Afrikaner?
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Is the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (No 22 of 2007) in conflict with the Witchcraft Suppression Act (No 3 of 1957) in present-day South Africa?
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (WordPress, 2016)Background: The Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No 22, 2007) to regulate the traditional health fraternity had been driven since the 1960s and became a reality after the 1994 political change in South Africa. ... -
Is the Witchcraft Suppression Act (No 3 of 1957) a medieval throwback to the Dark Ages for South Africans? Think again!
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (WordPress, 2016)Background: The Witchcraft Suppression Act (Act No 3, 1957) seems to have been totally ignored since 1994 as an old apartheid law by the new political dispensation. The question is: Why is this happening and can the Act ... -
Is the Witchcraft Suppression Act (No 3, 1957) doing an injustice to the neo-pagans in South Africa?
Duvenhage, André; Louw, Gabriel Petrus (WordPress, 2016)The presence of the so called neo-pagans became well-known since 1994 in South African with their claims that their religious, cultural and constitutional rights as individuals and as a group are endangered by the Witchcraft ... -
The education and training levels of the South African traditional healer: a present-day perspective
Louw, Gabrie; Duvenhage, André (Australasian Medical Journal, 2016)Background:The traditional healer in Southern Africa received new status as a statutorily recognized health professional with the promulgation of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 (2007). Usually such recognition ... -
The future registration of the White traditional healer in terms of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (Act No 22, 2007) in South Africa: more bones to be thrown?
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (Australasian Medical Journal, 2017)Background: The dilemma of the White traditional healer is an unexpected outcome of the intent to use the Traditional Health Practitioners Act No 22 (2007) to adhere to the ANC's cultural rights declaration of 1969, which ... -
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
Louw, Gabriel; Duvenhage, André (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 ...