Initiation Schools

Initiation Bill trips over Contralesa

Article Govan Whittles - 31 Aug 2018

Amakhosi say they have not been consulted and have been insulted because women are involved

Cogta pleads with parents to check legitimacy of initiation centres

Article Jenni Evans - 25 Jun 2018

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

Justice failed, says initiates’ father

Article Carl Collison - 18 May 2018

Two traditional nurses found guilty of mutilating a man’s two sons were given an ‘insulting’ sentence

A letter to my Xhosa fathers and brothers

Article Zukiswa Wanner - 9 Feb 2018

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

Boys endanger manhood to be men

Article Carl Collison - 5 Jan 2018

Overwhelming peer pressure drives some youngsters to circumcise themselves

Hope for victims of botched circumcisions

Article Carl Collison - 23 Nov 2017

Young men who have lost their penises during initiation may be in line for free reconstruction

Exposing a culture’s wounds

Article bogdan TagDiv - 21 Jul 2017

It’s been fêted around the world, but Inxeba’s smashed stereotypes will cause a stir locally

Chiefs: ‘No initiate will die this season’

Article bogdan TagDiv - 17 May 2016

Traditional leaders believe new government rules will prevent young men from dying this winter.

Rip-off artists are the real threat to koma

Analysis bogdan TagDiv - 17 Jul 2015

This sacred community ritual has been subverted and sullied by predatory and deadly opportunists.

Illegal North West initiation schools closed down

Article bogdan TagDiv - 24 Feb 2014

Two illegal initiation schools have been shut down in North West, says the traditional affairs department, while authorities search for the owners.

Initiation school owner guilty of teen deaths

Article bogdan TagDiv - 7 Feb 2014

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

Rights of injured initiates violated

Article bogdan TagDiv - 28 Dec 2013

The Eastern Cape Department of Health has condemned handlers at an initiation school for denying three injured boys treatment.

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