

So there's quite a bit of overlap here. Enlarging penises and shrinking vaginas for example. Not to mention assisting with career advancement and winning court cases, and managing the Tokoloshe. But there's some more conventional medical stuff here too, such as claims to help with diabetes, blood pressure, and (especially alarmingly) AIDS.
There's also the 100% guarantee. This is dreadful exploitative nonsense that in most cases is contingently very false: nothing has 100% effectiveness with any medical condition. And in some cases it's necessarily false, unless Dr Simba would honourably refuse to take the money of one side in a court case, having already rendered a service to the first. Perhaps we could do an experiment on this some time...
If you're in Durban, or elsewhere in SA, and have similar adverts please either email me, or if you've blogged them send me links - I'd like to keep on tracking this stuff.
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Your Durban doctors are crap. Neither of the two you've mentioned seem to stock the "muscle expander Mexino herb from Jamaica". Plus, in Wynberg we can get "Gambling, Lotto, Casino, Horse Racing" - Dr. Perez doesn't say whether he's a bookie or a therapist, but we should surely assume both, given the range of his powers.
Oh, and welcome back, however briefly you might linger.
Forgot the link:
http://6000.co.za/2007/11/30/the-doctor-will-see-you-now/
Yup, Dr Perez looks like the man. The pamphlet is strikingly similar in general design though. I wonder if it's convergent memetic evolution given similarities between superstitious gullible twerps, or whether there is a common memetic ancestor?
More likely the same Pakistani printer...
Apparently workers from the eThekwini Municipality are out there scraping these advertisements off the walls, bus stops etc. According to the "powers that be or want to be" they're a bit offensive... I still need to find an ad promising me I'll get paid even if i don't work...
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