You know you're in Africa when.....

in south-africa •  8 years ago 

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This pamphlet was handed to me at a traffic stop in my town, luckily I don't need any tokoloshes removed from my house.

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On a serious note though there are traditional herbalists with a vast knowledge of the local flora, I remember once working in my garden with a zulu chap of about my age, I was suffering from intense heartburn. I happened to mention this to him. He immediately walked around the garden for awhile then pulled out what I took to be weed. On the roots were little brown nodules which he offered to me to eat. Trusting soul that I am, I chewed them, they had a slight minty taste if I recall, and viola the heartburn was gone.

Wish I could remember what plant it was....

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I have a small classifieds ads website and see many attempts daily of people trying to create ads advertising all sorts of witchcraft and wild promises of easy riches.

I ended up building in a spam filtering system as it was too much to control manually.

I also saw those pasted on lamp posts before.

And they all call themselves Doctor.....

Exactly!

This happens to me all the time and the traffic lights as well. It is such a waste of trees that were cut down to end up as that utter totally crap and I do agree there are some serious traditional herbalists.

Unfortunately there are a lot of sheisters out there. It's amazing you can walk through one part of town and it will be completely first world and a few blocks aways away you could be in another town entirely.

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I, on the other hand, have many tokoloshes to see to. :p