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South Africa: Initiation Season - Traditional Nurses On the Frontline in the Eastern Cape

allafrica.com · 13dShare

[Health-e] For five weeks this winter, Health-e News freelance contributor Tembile Sgqolana regularly visited an initiation school in Komani, Eastern Cape, where his son was undergoing initiation. He saw first-hand how much responsibility falls on the amakhankatha, or traditional nurses, who care for initiates around the clock. His observations in this story relate to one initiation school.

First report: SA Men’s Forum calls for stricter regulation of initiation schools — sabcnews.com, 16d