Ethics statement

The Indigenous Healers Organisation in South Africa agreed to its members being approached for participation in a research project. Informed consent was obtained from the participants of this study after the first author explained the purpose of this research and that they could revoke their consent to participate at any point. This explanation was in either SePedi or IsiZulu which were languages preferred by the participants. Ethics approval for this study was obtained from the North-West University Animal Care, Health and Safety Research Ethics Committee (Ethics number: NWU-00185-18-S5) and Hasselt University Social-Societal Ethics Committee (Reference: REC/SMEC/VRAI/189/127). The research conducted complies with the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing (UID: ABSCH-IRCC-ZA-257320-1)