Sick Notes from Traditional Healers Receive the Nod in South Africa

A watershed court ruling that legally recognizes their patient sick notes has been welcomed by South African traditional healers or "sangomas". The Supreme Court of Appeal recently upheld a verdict that a Pretoria firm wrongfully sacked a chef who took five weeks leave to deal with her tormenting ancestors. In 2007 Johanna Mmoledi's employers refused to accept a cryptic note from her sangoma diagnosing her with "perminisions (sic) of ancestors." "The ...

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