Stress a “white man’s disease”: experts beg to differ
Psychologists and a Zulu culture expert punch holes in President Jacob Zuma’s claim that stress is a "white man’s disease"
Clinical psychologists and a Zulu culture expert have punched holes in President Jacob Zuma’s claim that stress is a "white man’s disease". Zuma said Zulu people did not suffer from it as it was a foreign concept to them. Brushing aside calls for him to step down during his 75th birthday bash in Kliptown‚ he said in Zulu that he did not have stress because it did not exist among Zulu people. "I do not have stress. In the Zulu nation‚ stress does not exist‚ you can go to a traditional healer asking to be healed from stress‚ but they do not have muti for stress." The president even went as far as to say there was no Zulu word for stress as it was a "white man’s disease". He may be right that he is not stressed by calls for him to step down but he is wrong when he says Zulu people do not have stress and that there is no Zulu word for it. "Yes there is a Zulu word for stress it’s called ingcindezi and then a person can explain what kind of stress they are suffering from‚" said retired U...
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