Harriet Ngubane

"To be reunited with society through cure was to effect a desired situation in life, whether that be social, biological or spiritual."

"This deeply anthropological understanding of health considered that it is in fact the process of achieving a desired state is of most significance to the sufferer."

"the importance of red symbols as representing the change from sickness to good health because of the therapeutic power of symbolism for the sufferer"

"In spite of Christianity the permeating influence in the Nyuswa reserve is based more on Zulu culture than on any foreign culture’"

"In most aspects of daily life, outlook and habits, I am Zulu in spite of my mission background’."

"Important aspects of Zulu culture were unrecognised and denied by Catholicism, including the recognition of ancestral power, the consulting of a diviner and certain forms of marriage."