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Call it 'Herbalprenurship', new business entities and individuals wheeling and dealing in herbal medicines. I hear the profit margins are stratospheric, with those with flexibility and agility ensconced in their business acumen realising more than 300% profit. Ahead of the pack in sales and a huge following are those into treating enlarged prostate and cancer of same. Overnight, everyone has the magic portion, roots and leaves to deal with men's health challenges.

The more innovative have capsuled the 'sawdust' to show sophistication and a greater appeal. Social media platforms are saturated with adverts promising overnight results, restoration and reversal of any worrying prostate condition. Not only that, the sangomas are 'rubbishing' sildenafil citrate in great praise of their herbal concoctions that can turn octogenarians into raging roosters. Where have the 'muti' men come from, where were they when we had more dense forests than the mere shrubbery we have today.

Fellow countrymen, I hear the sawdusts are not soluble and one has got a better chance of contracting a kidney ailment than an enhanced libido. On women's health, all diseases are said to vanish overnight after downing 'guchu', a blended cocktail of all sorts of this and that. The gist of the matter is that no pamphlet is given to show dosage and the herbal composition.

They put on immaculate uniforms to portray a corporate image, in the bag are mere twigs, leaves and saw dust. People are parting with their hard-earned or hard 'robbed' cash buying eucalyptus sawdust from the numerous sawmills dotted across the country. Maybe the real business acumen is to maximise opportunity and minimise risks. When the sangoma man approaches a 'picked target' he positions himself as a mentor and ally yet, is a wolf in sheepskin.

When you search his bags, one finds harmful drugs and other drugs paraphernalia. The N'anga's resolve is shaped by an impoverished childhood. Why do we stoop so low as to be hoodwinked by dunces? God help us. Palm readers and habrucadabras have an intimidating sabre-rattling rhetoric that must be taken with a shovel of salt, not a pinch anymore. Ancestors tried it, they abandoned it because they found no reason to keep towing the line. Today the prostate and libido herbalists are the richest in society. Why? Because the most gullible of my ilk have fallen for the scam in totality, starving famillies after the sangoma and the 'madzibaba' have taken all the money, goats, sheep and cattle under the guise of deliverance. Shame.

We shall be restless until we find rest in Jesus name.


Tondo. Chiweshe

Source - Thomas Murisa
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