Abstract
In South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) Province, the isangoma (diviner)
remains firmly entrenched at the apex of the hierarchy of African traditional
medicine (ATM). This review article raises two questions. The first interrogates
the essence of ubungoma (divination), while the second focuses on
Religion, magic and witchcraft are conceptual, socially constructed
categories, the boundaries of which have been contested under diverse
religious, cultural and intellectual conditions in the west. This paper focuses
firstly on the polemical relationship between religion and magic in the
