Young boxer dies after circumcision ceremony

Sunday Times (Johannesburg, South Africa). Sunday, 27 December 1992.

Professional boxer Thanduxolo Kolose, 20, has died after attending a circumcision school at Red-house near Port Elizabeth. Five others from the school have been admitted to Dora Ngingza Hospital in the city. Kolose, a Cape straw-weight, was dead on arrival at hospital on Sunday after suffering severe stomach pains for 2 days. Hospital superintendent Dr. Welkus Malherbe said the 5 others also had stomach pains. The death has raised fears again about untrained bush doctors in the cash-strapped Eastern Cape performing traditional December circumcision rites and mutilating scores of Xhosa youths. Another 39 abakhwetha are in hospital in the region with septicaemia. Three of 14 youths receiving treatment at East London's Frere Hospital have had skin grafts. A 4th is in intensive care unit. Two initiates are in hospital in Grahamstown, 17 in Port Elizabeth and 6 are in Ciskei's Cecilia Makiwane Hospital.

From: NOCIRC Japan Newsletter

Note:

South Africa's laws, to a large extent, ignore traditional practises.

Citation:

Young boxer dies after circumcision ceremony. Sunday Times (Johannesburg, South Africa). 1992-12-27

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