The 1978 KaNgwane Witchcraft and Traditional-Healing Commission

Record summary

South African homeland administrations in the late apartheid period investigated traditional healing, witchcraft accusations, and related public-order concerns through commissions and official reports. A particularly useful research direction is the KaNgwane and Eastern Transvaal documentation, where customary authorities, healers, churches, and state officials negotiated the status of ritual practitioners. The precise commission title and date should be checked in government gazettes and archival catalogues. Such material records administrative perceptions and disputes, not proof that witchcraft accusations were factually correct.