Tag: Initiation

The Eastern Cape Traditional Affairs department believes mothers can play an important role in curbing the death toll during the ...

The Limpopo House of Traditional Leaders believes that it has had a successful initiation school season with less fatalities than ...

There's been a major decrease in the number of deaths among initiates in the Eastern Cape this year.

The initiation season in Limpopo has officially opened, after it was halted for two consecutive years because of the COVID-19 ...

The number of initiates who have died in the Eastern Cape province during the December initiation season has risen to ...

Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane has urged those involved in the upcoming initiation season which started last weekend to adhere ...

The Eastern Cape House of Traditional Leaders says following the announcement made by President Cyril Ramaphosa to place the country ...

The involvement of women in traditional male circumcision is back in the spotlight.

Congress of Traditional Leadership of South Africa says all stakeholders responsible with the summer initiation season will strictly implement initiation ...

The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa maintains that there should be a summer initiation season despite a surge ...

The suspension of the male custom of initiation is continuing. The winter initiation season was called off when the coronavirus ...

The Eastern Cape government has sent its proposal to the national government about how it will conduct the summer initiation ...

The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) has confirmed that the summer male initiation custom will be permitted, ...

Traditional authority, CONTRALESA, has given the green light for initiation schools to open in December.

The Eastern Cape House of Traditional Leaders says communities in the province are ready and prepared to resume with the ...

The initiation of boys into manhood, which is the cornerstone of some cultures of tribes such as the Xhosa, remains ...

Communities in the Eastern Cape will know in a week's time whether or not the June initiation season will be ...

A traditional nurse has been arrested in Libode in the Eastern Cape for allegedly running an illegal initiation school.

The Limpopo Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs has suspended initiation schools for 2020.

Doctors treating the three initiates rescued from the bogus school in Crown Mines in Johannesburg say the patients are recovering ...