Justice failed, says initiates’ father | News | National

tenchineuro · 2018-05-25T00:49:39+00:00

As many Xhosa parents do, Nelisile Nongqa sent his sons to initiation school in the belief that “every Xhosa boy should go through this ritual” to manhood. But they were severely beaten with knobkerries by the traditional nurses tasked with taking care of them.

In June last year, Nongqa’s sons, aged 19 and 26, went to an initiation school in the Eastern Cape village of Gabazi.

One day, checking up on their progress, he discovered they had not only been badly beaten on their bodies but also on their freshly circumcised penises.

The reasons for the beating: they were from a different village to the traditional nurses and the older of the young men had previously been circumcised at a clinic, so “they would never see him as a real man”.

“Their manhoods were seriously injured and they had to be taken to hospital. In hospital, they were urinating using pipes.”

This is a really horrible tradition. They don't give any further information about his sons, I hope they recovered enough to live a normal life.

thrway_1000 · 2018-05-25T01:09:25+00:00

Pretty messed up culture altogether.

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