The President of the Icamagu Spirituality, Professor Nokuzola Mndende, has expressed concern over how criminal elements continue to try infiltrate the initiation of young men.
She’s responding to the controversy over young boys who sometimes are taken to bogus initiation schools without their parents’ consent.
May and July are South Africa’s peak circumcision season. According to the Gauteng Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs’ (CoGTA) Provincial Initiation Coordinating Committee (PICC), 138 boys were taken to fly-by night initiation schools between May and the 12th of last month.
Prof Mndende says initiation is a sacred rite of passage and taking any young person to such a process without their family’s consent robs them of the privilege to do things according to their family traditions and rituals.
Recently a social media user caused quite a stir on X after sharing how his son and a friend, who they thought were missing, turned out to have gone to an initiation school without their consent.
As a parent, why didn’t you return my underage child home when you didn’t receive consent from me to have him there?
Not only am I not paying you, I’m also opening a case. TF?! https://t.co/jEcdAZnWcE
— Tanya Junghans (@tanyajunghans) July 20, 2024
I wouldn’t pay a single cent. I’d pay the woman who shared the info and then report him kidnapped. https://t.co/kRJfw1G3pX
— Makhosazana Zwane-Siguqa (@ZwaneSiguqa) July 20, 2024
The reason why minors need guidance, they’re mental capacity is limited but they think they know it all 🙄🙄🙄
Also, pray for parents with teenagers 😂😂😂 https://t.co/YAObKEeCWk— Ms. Moyana (@marcia_breeze) July 19, 2024
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