A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE CRIMINALISATION OF THE VIOLATION OF A CORPSE IN CONTEXT OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINE IN SUBEQUATORIAL AFRICA, INCLUDING CONSIDERATION OF CUSTOMARY LAW
Journal: UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria)
Year: 2017

This discourse is a comparative study of the criminalisation of the violation of a corpse in context of traditional medicine in subequatorial Africa, including consideration of customary law and seeks specifically to examine whether the use of body parts for medicine falls within the paradigm of traditional medicine as opposed to professed any use in witchcraft. The question of any possible cultural defence for the violation of a corpse in traditional medicine is also examined.\nRegard has been