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Initiation Bill trips over Contralesa

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Amakhosi say they have not been consulted and have been insulted because women are involved
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Cogta pleads with parents to check legitimacy of initiation centres

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Any parent whose child is harmed, or who has suspicions about the place the child is going, must open a complaint at a police station
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Justice failed, says initiates’ father

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Two traditional nurses found guilty of mutilating a man’s two sons were given an ‘insulting’ sentence
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A letter to my Xhosa fathers and brothers

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"I am a Xhosa woman who is raising a Xhosa boy. If this is your manhood, madoda, keep it. Your priorities are very skewed".
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Boys endanger manhood to be men

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Overwhelming peer pressure drives some youngsters to circumcise themselves
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Hope for victims of botched circumcisions

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Young men who have lost their penises during initiation may be in line for free reconstruction
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Exposing a culture’s wounds

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It’s been fêted around the world, but Inxeba’s smashed stereotypes will cause a stir locally
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Chiefs: ‘No initiate will die this season’

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Traditional leaders believe new government rules will prevent young men from dying this winter.
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Rip-off artists are the real threat to koma

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This sacred community ritual has been subverted and sullied by predatory and deadly opportunists.
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Illegal North West initiation schools closed down

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Two illegal initiation schools have been shut down in North West, says the traditional affairs department, while authorities search for the owners.
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Initiation school owner guilty of teen deaths

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The owner of an initiation school has been found guilty of culpable homicide after the death of an initiate.
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Rights of injured initiates violated

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The Eastern Cape Department of Health has condemned handlers at an initiation school for denying three injured boys treatment.
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Thirty circumcision deaths so far in Eastern Cape

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Eastern Cape government has called an emergency meeting after 30 initiates were killed in the summer initiation season so far.
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Modise slams illegal initiation schools for ‘undermining our tradition’

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Following the deaths of two teenage initiates, North West Premier Thandi Modise has demanded the closure of illegally run initiation schools.
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The boys who lost their manhood

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During this initiation season, we look back at what happened in 2013 when bungled initiations cost boys their penises.
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