September 8, 2007
The recent report of a terrorized community in the North West Province, where people are too terrified to leave their houses at night after the gruesome muti-murder of a 17 year old boy, is once again drawing attention to the ongoing horror and reality of the practice of muti-murders in South Africa. These body parts somehow find their way to the consumer without ever being advertised as such. However ...[more]
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August 14, 2007Doctors for Life International (DFL) is concerned about the equality with which the Gauteng Provincial Legislature conducted public hearings on the Traditional Health Practitioners Bill today. At the beginning of the hearings, the public was told that they would be able to deliver their input after representatives of organisations spoke. This, however, appears not to have happened and requests from individual members of the public to be heard were, in fact, dismissed. ...[more]
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Doctors for Life International will be present at many of the Public Hearings across SA, where the controversial Termination of Pregnancy Amendment and Traditional Health Practioners Bills will be open to public input this week ....[more]
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August 03, 2007
In 2006, the Constitutional Court declared these two laws invalid because Parliament did not consult the public when it passed the laws. Parliament can now re-enact these laws after they have involved the public as required by the Constitution.
Public hearings will now be held across South Africa during the week of 13 through 17 August. ANY person may voice his or her opinion about these laws at these hearings. ...[more]
The list of Provincial Health Committees contact details with confirmed dates and time for Public Hearings ...[more]
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| August 03, 2007In August 2006 Doctors for Life International (DFL) successfully challenged the validity of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (THPA) in the South African Constitutional Court on the ground that Parliament failed to facilitate public participation as is required by the Constitution. ...[more]
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One of our staff members, Dr Bola Omoniyi will take part in this television debate. You can support her by watching the program, if possible, and then to vote by sms to express your view on this matter. ...[more]
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| March 14, 2006The South African Health System is in a state of crisis. The answer has been in the form of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act 35 of 2004. However, a study conducted at the Garankuwa Hospital, showed that between 10,000-20,000 South African's die every year from "poisoning by traditional medicines". ...more
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October 6th, 2004
Doctors For Life (South Africa) would like to re-affirm our commitment to promoting holistic health to all the people of South Africa in a scientifically sound and morally accountable way.....
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August,16 2004
Doctors For Life (South Africa) would like to re-affirm our commitment to promoting holistic health to all the people of South Africa in a scientifically sound and morally accountable way.
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August,19 1998
Doctors For Life has rendered evidence before the portfolio committee on health, in favour of keeping traditional healers out of S.A.’s health care system. In its submission DFL maintained that primary health care should be QUALITY health care and not PRIMITIVE health care. DFL argued that African traditional medicine has not (over the centuries) succeeded in ensuring a progressive, steady decline in infant, maternal and overall mortality rate.
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