Medicinal plants in South Africa have been utilized for many years by indigenous people as remedies for human diseases because they contain components of therapeutic value. Even today more than 60 % of South Africans depend on the effectiveness of traditional medicinal plants as compared to synthetic medicines [1]. Diseases that have been managed traditionally using medicinal plants include malaria, epilepsy, infertility, convulsion, diarrhoea and other complications caused by fungal and bacterial infections [2]. The importance and efficacy of medicinal plants depends on the nature of phytochemicals they possess [3]. The usage of medicinal plants in traditional healthcare system is predominated by a phenomenon of convenient plant collection practice, based on easiness of access. This gives