Initiation custom belongs to traditional leaders and community: AbeSotho - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

More than 2 000 AbeSotho boys underwent the right of passage into manhood during this festive season.

The AbeSotho celebrated the homecoming of 85 initiates at St Pauls village outside Matatiele.A total of 27 deaths were recorded for the summer initiation season throughout the Eastern Cape. An AbeSotho traditional surgeon, Tebogo Mongoato, says men need to own the custom in order to save lives “Initiation custom is not an individual matter. It is a community matter because the community interviews through the traditional leader, where even the men who have gone through it come to see if you can conduct initiation and see if you have the skills that you can be able to conduct initiation,” explains Mongaoto.

The Premier of the Eastern Cape, Lubabalo Mabuyane, says others who practice this traditional can learn from the AbeSotho. He says the needless loss of lives during initiations must end and the work being done in Matatiele must be part of the discussion going forward.

Fix that... ke Basotho!!

It's not abeSotho it's Basotho...it's Not Mazulu it's AmaZulu it's not Maqhotsa it's Amaxhosa ...don't use Xhosa don't use isiXhosa to discribe Sesotho

cci_network What is abeSotho now?

Basotho not Abesotho

That's BS. They are breaking the law by murdering kids in the name of 'custom.' They must be jailed. Too many kids every year die in their hands & others lose their penises because of them. Medical doctors must perform the circumcision & they only handle traditional teachings.

Culture is dynamic. This trait of reluctance to embrace change is what is stalling African development

Please don't disrespect us like that we are not 'Abesotho' don't 'Xhosarize' us please. Re Basotho and that's that!!!

If this initiation tradition belongs to them, then they are responsible for the deaths of the young boys of this country and should thus be accordingly be punished for their actions..

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