From 2019 to the current period (for some nations), the world grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic. Scholarship on the pandemic has highlighted the many ways that conventional health systems floundered when the pandemic emerged. At its onset, the Western world was concerned about how Africa precisely would manage considering its dilapidated healthcare systems. Some pessimists in the West predicted the littering of the African streets with dead bodies. When this did not happen, questions were raised and possible answers have been proffered to explain this. Scholarship on the pandemic writing on Africa has noted the many ways that Africa turned to traditional medicine (TM) which was both accessible and trusted. TM was used in Africa and specifically Zimbabwe as a form of agency in response to the limitations of conventional medicine and the uncertainty brought by the pandemic. Utilizing insights from SDGs 3 and 5, this chapter seeks to establish whether the use of TM during the COVID-19 pandemic has implications for development in Zimbabwe. The chapter seeks to answer the following questions: What is the contribution of TM to both health and development discourses? How does the use of TM during the pandemic assist in the deconstruction of development practices that emphasize Western knowledge in health discourses? How does COVID-19 and the use of TM expose the inadequacies of contemporary conceptualizations of development? How is gender weaved in health and development discourses focusing on TM during the COVID-19 pandemic? This is largely a theoretical chapter which relies on secondary sources. The chapter utilizes decolonial theory to appreciate the indigenous ways of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic deployed in Zimbabwe.