Delays in enforcing the law have left communities exposed to unsafe practices and weak oversight, officials have said Around 300,000 traditional health practitioners in South Africa remain effectively unregulated due to years of delays in implementing key provisions of the law, creating a prolonged regulatory failure in the sector, the South African Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Health said on Tuesday. The committee said the failure to operationalise the Interim Traditional Health Practitioners Council of South Africa has left a legal and regulatory vacuum nearly two decades after the Traditional Health Practitioners Act of 2007 was passed. Committee chairperson Faith Muthambi said the situation was no longer acceptable. ”It cannot be acceptable that Parliament passed legislation in 2007, established a statutory council in 2014, and 12 years later the core provisions of that law remain unimplemented,” Muthambi said.…