The streets of KwaDukuza town were red painted on Thursday as members of the Traditional Healers Organisation (THO) marched against the use of human body parts for muthi, abuse of women and children, backstreet abortions and the use of illegal drugs.
THO members said incidents around the country where people were caught with human body parts and claimed they were planning to sell them as muthi to a traditional healer were tarnishing their image.
Most recently on August 4 a man was found with a human head stashed in a backpack in the Durban CBD.
THO secretary Robert Mthembu said these “so called healers” are just criminals hiding under the traditional healer’s name and should be dealt with accordingly.
“Healers don’t use human body parts to heal people we use plants.
“We go to the bush and dig out the plants that we need to make muthi.
“People need to differentiate us from witchcrafters, those people had never been welcome in our society,” said Mthembu.
The traditional healers were accompanied by health care workers from KwaDukuza.
They handed over their memorandum to KwaDukuza municipality mayor Ricardo Mthembu.
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