The Traditional Medical Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe (TMPCZ) has directed all traditional healers and faith healers to be registered for them to continue practising.
This comes after the Ministry of Health and Child Care directed faith healers and herbalists from both churches and traditional religion to obtain licences for their operations.
In a recent statement, TMPCZ directed unregistered Traditional Health Practitioners to register in their respective provinces. Reads the statement:
The Traditional Medical Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe (TMPCZ) hereby gives notice to all unregistered Traditional Health Practitioners to go and register in their respective provinces. The required categories are:
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1. Traditional Healers/Faith Healers, including Prophets and Apostles/Bishops/Traditional Birth Attendants/Spirit Mediums
2. Churches
3. Local and Foreign Traditional Medical Associations
4. Associations representing all categories of different practitioners
5. Herbalists/Herbal Gardens/Traditional Wholesalers/Shops
6. Distributors/Manufacturers of Traditional Medicine
7. Traditional Surgeries/Clinics
8. Training Institutions
The council kindly informs Practitioners that it is a legal requirement to register with the TMPCZ in terms of the Traditional Medical Practitioners Act Chapter 27:14 (Act 38/1981, 6/2000(s. 151), 22/2001 (s. 4), 14/2022 (s. 42)).
Chapter 27:14 Part VI Section 31 stipulates that a person who practices or carries the business as a traditional medical practitioner without being registered is liable to a fine not exceeding (US$400.00) or imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
Traditional Medical Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe is a public entity under the purview of the Ministry of Health and Child Care.
We expect that by the end of March 2023, all legal abiding practitioners will have paid their practicing licenses.
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A Chimanimani man died on Monday last week after he was struck by a lightning bolt at a faith healer’s shrine where he had gone to seek his spiritual assistance.
Tichaona Mathew Ngoma (30) died at Madzibaba Tarisai Misheck’s shrine.
Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) deputy spokesperson in Manicaland Province, Assistant Inspector Wiseman Chinyoka, said the incident happened in Chibuwe Village in Chief Mutambara’s area. He said:
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Ngoma visited Madzibaba Misheck’s shrine on October 21 seeking spiritual assistance. Madzibaba Misheck advised him to stay at the shrine for seven days and he complied.
On October 24, Ngoma and his colleague, Valentine Mukomo, went to a nearby river to bath.
After bathing, they proceeded to a nearby bush to fetch firewood as they wanted to cook.
It started raining and they rushed back to the shrine and left the firewood under a tree.
They sought shelter in a tent that was at the shrine. Ngoma was struck by a lightning bolt and died on the spot.
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Assistant Inspector Chinyoka added that Ngoma’s body was taken to Nyanyadzi Rural Hospital mortuary. | <a href="https://www.manicapost.co.zw/lightning-kills-one-at-madzibabas-shrine/">The Manica Post</a>

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