Traditional circumcisions can carry fatal risks including poorly trained practitioners and cutting tools that are unsanitary ...

The IFP has re-iterated its call that all initiation schools should be verified and licensed to safely carry out both circumcision and initiation, as summer circumcision season starts next week in the ...

Young Xhosa boys, their faces smeared with clay as part of a manhood ritual, stand on the side of the N2 highway July 9, 2001 Mdantsane outside East London in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.

Traditional rite-of-passage ceremonies in South Africa left 32 boys dead and more than 150 hospitalised, local authorities said Tuesday, as the annual initiation season drew to a close. Most of the ...