I started obsessively collecting these little healing pamphlets the last week of my stay in South Africa. (That’s one reason why these two are from Cape Town, though I have a few from Pretoria. I didn’t notice these in Durban or Pietermaritzburg.) I’m sorry they don’t show up really well with this white background. However, as you will see, if you click on these to blow them up so you can see the full pamphlet and read the promises they make, all of them claim to be a “Dr.” and all promise wonderful things (penis growth, relief from bad luck, relief from witchcraft, relief from the Tokoloshe–an elf-sized-creature with an enormous penis that bewitches people, esp. women). Also notice that “Dr. Shmal” claims expertise abroad–a great example of the “nothing good can come out of Galilee” syndrome, where outsiders and expertise learned elsewhere or non-locals are offered more clout than locals.
