Perhaps what was the deliberate attempt to iradicate or destroy our cultural heritage since drumming, for example, was considered by the church to be a heathen practice. African Christians were at once cut off from the well springs of their culture - the rhythms of African music and dance African medicine, too, was regarded as inferior, and if you were an African Christian you were expected to seek help from the doctor at the hospital, not from the African herbalist, who had come to be styled the witch-doctor or medicine man. And yet it was the herbalist who throughout the ages had cured our fevers and our deseases. His knowledge of local herbs could have been used in the development of curactive medicine in Africa, but instead he was condemned, and no distinction was made between him and a trickster or juju-man, who preyed on our superstitious beliefs. Labadzala batsi umsebenti lofana nemshado nalokunye-nje uyacelwa kusanesikhatsi lesinyenti ngembi kwekutsi ube khona. Kuliciniso kangakanani loku Chaza?