Sick people often seek alternative therapies because doctors do not have any treatments to offer
He had the option of chemotherapy with a 50 / 50 chance of long term survival.
The article is not about seeking alternative treatments as a last resort, it is about disregarding well proven science in favour of unproven (and in this case ineffective) alternatives.
The thinking goes:
A business should have enough cash to weather a storm. If you've paid out cash you have more than enough to weather a storm (and therefore don't need money). If you need money and have paid out dividends than you shouldn't have, you didn't have enough cash reserve.
'Tuko pamoja' translates literally to 'we are together'. Not only is it not a single word, but it's literally translatable to English. Tuko - we are, pamoja - together.