| The shop has a constant flow of customers, buying items on the instructions of an inyanga, a traditional healer who uses herbal remedies. |
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| Several readers have sent me a facsimile of a doctor's certificate from an inyanga stating that his patient needs two weeks off from work because of headaches. |
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| Visitors can consult with an inyanga or traditional doctor, at the market. |
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| Of these three categories the thakatha is almost exclusively female, the sangoma is usually female, and the inyanga is almost exclusively male. |
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