Traditional healers in the Southern Cape town of George have been awarded certificates of merit to run a newly-established medicinal garden along acceptable business lines which will profit their healing business and help alleviate the strain on the ecological system in the area.

According to an SABC News report, local authorities donated the Witfontein Medicinal Plant Nursery on the slopes of Outeniqua Mountain Pass to more than 40 traditional healers in the area, who have been empowered with business skills over a period of three months to run the garden profitably. Cape Nature says the initiative will enable traditional healers to harvest indigenous plants at the garden without negatively affecting the fynbos in the area.
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