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In spite of Christianity the permeating influence in the Nyuswa reserve is based more on Zulu culture than on any foreign culture’

— Harriet Ngubane

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To be reunited with society through cure was to effect a desired situation in life, whether that be social, biological or spiritual.

In most aspects of daily life, outlook and habits, I am Zulu in spite of my mission background’.

This deeply anthropological understanding of health considered that it is in fact the process of achieving a desired state is of most significance to the sufferer.

Important aspects of Zulu culture were unrecognised and denied by Catholicism, including the recognition of ancestral power, the consulting of a diviner and certain forms of marriage.

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