Sangoma tax hike?

A Swazi Member of Parliament recently urged the government to hike taxes on traditional healers and witchdoctors to help solve the kingdom’s funding crisis. Traditional healers pay an annual $1.15 license fee, but

Majahodvwa Khumalo said they should pay more. Swaziland’s budget deficit ballooned to 15 percent of its annual economic output in 2010, but government kept itself afloat by running through central bank reserves and delaying payment of wages to civil servants.

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