Winter initiation season leaves several boys with botched circumcision: Kgoshi Mathupa Mokoena

Several young boys have experienced botched circumcision in the last initiation season. This has prompted the Commission for the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Communities to meet with about 200 families whose young men experienced botched circumcision during the initiation season. Several young men in the Phalaborwa area experienced problems during the rite of passage to manhood. At least 11 initiates have died in the Eastern Cape from dehydration, septicemia and gangrene. A further 119 were treated in hospitals across the province for circumcision-related complications. In Limpopo, an 8-year-old boy died in one of the initiation schools due to epileptic complications, at least 2000 boys were also registered in that particular school and 290 had emergency complications. We are now joined via Zoom by the president of CONTRALESA, Mr Kgoshi Mathupa Mokoena. He weighs in on these developments in the last initiation season. For more news, visit sabcnews.com and also #SABCNews on all Social Media platforms.