71.   Traditional healers threatened Saturday to close their shops unless the government stops what they called a scheme to allow Western-medicine pharmacists to practice lucrative herbal medicine.

72.   He called for traditional healers to be included in these strategies, but for their medicines to be subjected to the same scrutiny as western drugs.

73.   He said traditional healers were secretive about the herb, fearing scientists would reap financial rewards from the knowledge.

74.   A Ugandan Roman Catholic priest, Dominic Mwebe, who is also a traditional healer said many healers wanted to learn some modern techniques.

75.   But Sunday marks a new beginning for the farm, to be turned into a national centre of indigenous knowledge, Serote and traditional healers at the ceremony said.

76.   Chaka, who holds a government licence to practice as a traditional healer, was invited by the villagers to cleanse their area of witches.

77.   Credo Mutwa is an acclaimed sculptor and a traditional Zulu healer who is crusading among South African blacks to rediscover their ancestral roots.

78.   The traditional healers, widely consulted and respected, intend to use the centre at Vlakplaas for developing and protecting their knowledge.

79.   The traditional healers spread throughout African countries are already providing basic health care to most populations.

80.   Traditional healers are also a focus of indoctrination.