After this ruling it basically makes any sick note written out by a traditional healer to be considered valid and of equal weight to a qualified doctor. Which means you can legally be allowed to take sick leave for things like "possessed by ancestors" and other such rubbish. What is worse is that the government is actually trying to introduce some kind of system to force some kind of legitimacy for traditional healers. Last I checked you can study to become one, and be regarded as an equal to any other doctor.
Fabricated notes for sick days are the least of my worries; I am of the opinion that we should have far more paid vacation time in this country and that it should be illegal to coerce an employee to work more than 40 hours a week. No, something like this will give charlatans the veneer of authority they need to dissuade people that actually need medical care from getting it.
EDIT: Almost had me thinking that was the United States for a second. I will now assert my overbearing nationalism by not giving a fuck about politics in South Africa.
If it makes you feel better, there's a summer class devoted to alternative medicine at the college I went to.
I remember getting pretty angry about that.
On-topic:
This is all sorts of ridiculous. This is a big reason why religion, any religion period, should have no part in the government.
The only role government should play in religion is protecting the people's right to practice or
not practice a religion so long as that religion doesn't infringe on other people's rights.