South African traditional-healer registration and “fake sangoma” prosecutions

Record summary

South African police, courts, and the Traditional Health Practitioners Council have repeatedly dealt with people accused of posing as sangomas or traditional healers, charging for promised wealth, healing, or relationship remedies. The cases are individually identifiable through provincial police releases and court reports, but the category itself is not one event. It offers a comparison between regulated traditional healing, occult-consultation markets, and ordinary fraud. A researcher should choose a named defendant and docket, since media labels can unfairly collapse licensed practitioners, diviners, and impostors.