Circumcision Schools
latest news & developments
Justice failed, says initiates’ father
Two traditional nurses found guilty of mutilating a man’s two sons were given an ‘insulting’ sentence
Slice of Life: ‘I was afraid but ah, me, I’m now a man’
‘Circumcision school can be a dangerous place but after I went everyone was happy, I joined the elders’ discussions and felt I could face anything.’
PrePex could cut down on botched circumcision deaths
A non-surgical circumcision tool could provide a way for initiation schools to eliminate initiate deaths from traditional circumcision complications.
Play gives initiates who lost their manhood a voice
A Johannesburg director has taken up the continuing tragedy of botched circumcisions.
Medical back-up in Pondo initiation
Eastern Cape royals are campaigning to use medical circumcision in traditional rituals.
Child’s death scares off patients
Work on HIV prevention may be undone after a boy died after a medical circumcision procedure.
Young South Africans on youth unemployment and circumcision
Three of the M&G’s 200 YSA discuss the country’s unemployment issues and the controversial topic of male initiation.
Male circumcision: Number of deaths unknown
PODCAST: We speak to M&G reporter Faranaaz Parker about government’s apparent inability to track the rising number of circumcision deaths in SA.
Editorial: Too many young men are dying
The proliferation of illegal initiation schools is a threat not just to cultural practices or even young men’s lives, but to public health in general.
Clash of customs
Boys in Mpondoland are going behind their parents’ backs to attend dodgy initiation schools that too often claim the lives of youths who would be men.
Mother accuses police of failing her after kidnap
The police are refusing to act against a circumcision school that allegedly kidnapped boys without their parents’ consent, a mother said on Tuesday.