The first initiate death for the 2022 summer initiation season has been recorded in Mdantsane in the Eastern Cape.👀
Xasa said the committee wanted to “ascertain whether there were practical measures in place to prevent the death of initiates”.One of the concerns brought to the committee’s attention in July was “the general lack of compliance with the Customary Initiation Act”, Xasa said.
He said “the mushrooming of illegal initiation schools surpassed the legal schools and the admission of underage boys to these schools” was alarming.The committee said the provincial health department also failed to provide 45 vehicles, as promised, to “facilitate the monitoring of schools”. “[It is a] constraint that hinders monitoring teams from fulfilling their responsibilities and hampers the provision of accurate statistics on customary male initiation,” Xasa said.Following the visit earlier this year, the committee also called on the health department to provide additional nurses to assist during the initiation periods.
The committee will return to the Eastern Cape next week for another oversight visit to assess compliance and implementation of the
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