Back to the News 2002 page.SA TIMES, London, 12 June 2002.
THE National House of Traditional Leaders has expressed concern about the number of deaths that occur during iniation rituals, a Xhosa tradition whereby teenage boys are circumcised to become men.
The amakhosi said it had compiled a discussion paper
and asked the Health Department for an imbizo. Causes
of death were incompetent doctors, "surgeons who fail
to abstain from sexual relations before the ritual,"
lack of government support, unsterilised instruments
and schools more concerned about money than the
initiating process.
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