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INITIATION SCHOOLS

Circumcision season is upon us

Mpumalanga celebrates a 100% success rate in its initiation schools, with all 716 initiates returning home safely. This article highlights the province's successful interventions…

  • Speedy Mashilo
4 min read
The customary practice in South Africa, which is a rite of passage from boyhood to manhood, is often riddled with controversy between those calling for it to be completely scrapped in favour of circumcision at hospitals and staunch traditionalists demanding its continued preservation.
OPINION

Illegal initiation schools, be warned: we will hunt you and close you, with consequences to follow

The full might of the law will be applied because we do not want to see yet another loss of life

  • Speedy Mashilo
4 min read