SABC's top soapies have raised the ire of the Traditional Healers Organisation for incorporating plots which involve witchcraft and the display of local sangoma regalia.
On Generations: The Legacy, viewers are getting insight into the use of intense witchcraft.
The latest plot sees the character of Tshidi, played by Latoya Makhene enlist the help of a sangoma. Tshidi is desperate to succeed professionally and to protect herself and her family from bad luck and the supposed evil schemes of others against her.
She then visits a witch doctor with her husband and she is bathed in herbs and blood and given a snake called Mamlambo to keep in her house. The snake will apparently protect her and will be a weapon against her enemies as long as she feeds and listens to it.
On Muvhango, a storyline featuring a zombie is currently underway. The drama regularly showcases witchcraft with a resident witchdoctor appearing in most of its scenes.
According to The Sowetan, the Traditional Healers Organisation has complained that Generationsand Muvhango have showcased African spirituality in a derogatory manner.
Phepsile Maseko, national coordinator of THO said: "In both scenarios, sangoma regalia is used. This is distasteful and disrespectful to African practise and an outright human rights injustice. Maseko added that the plots in the dramas were misleading and a distinction between healing and withcraft was not made.
Generations, Muvhango in hot water over witchcraft storylines
On Generations: The Legacy, viewers are getting insight into the use of intense witchcraft.
The latest plot sees the character of Tshidi, played by Latoya Makhene enlist the help of a sangoma. Tshidi is desperate to succeed professionally and to protect herself and her family from bad luck and the supposed evil schemes of others against her.
She then visits a witch doctor with her husband and she is bathed in herbs and blood and given a snake called Mamlambo to keep in her house. The snake will apparently protect her and will be a weapon against her enemies as long as she feeds and listens to it.
On Muvhango, a storyline featuring a zombie is currently underway. The drama regularly showcases witchcraft with a resident witchdoctor appearing in most of its scenes.
According to The Sowetan, the Traditional Healers Organisation has complained that Generationsand Muvhango have showcased African spirituality in a derogatory manner.
Phepsile Maseko, national coordinator of THO said: "In both scenarios, sangoma regalia is used. This is distasteful and disrespectful to African practise and an outright human rights injustice. Maseko added that the plots in the dramas were misleading and a distinction between healing and withcraft was not made.
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