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Original Post Date: 2002-06-28 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 6/28/2002 1:33:41 PM
They wanted us to eat his heart
A group of boys initiated at Ratanda on the East Rand were expecting a
fun break when they left for a traditional Sotho initiation school. It
turned out to be a nightmare.
“Our friends told us it’s nice there and that you play soccer,” Leonard
Mkhwanazi, 15, said at Heidelberg hospital on Wednesday where he is
being treated for a botched circumcision.
A fellow initiate, Sipho Mhkwanazi, 17, said: “I feel so bad because
one of my dreams died. Eight people took turns in hitting him (one of the dead initiates) 50 times each. The other boys beat him as well.”
The group of boys spoke to Sapa on Wednesday after being discharged
from hospital. They were among the more than 50 initiates saved by the
police after five died during a traditional ceremony this week.
‘I feel so bad because one of my dreams died’
Johannes Makhoba, 15, said if the police had not arrived the initiates
would have been forced to eat the dead teen’s heart.
“They wanted us to eat his heart because he ran away but then one
teacher informed the police that a boy had died.”
Asked whether the boys did not consider running away, he said : “If we
tried to get out, they would have killed us.”
Makhoba said the teachers told them to tell their friends after the
seven weeks of initiation that it was pleasant at the camp.
“But when you go there everything changes. You don’t see the things
that you expected to see.”
‘They wanted us to eat his heart because he ran away’
East Rand police spokesperson Anneline Prinsloo said the results of the
post-mortems of the five boys had implicated teachers from the
initiation schools in their deaths.
The five teachers had been arrested and would be charged in the
Heidelberg Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.
The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) welcomed the arrests and called
on traditional leaders, healers and the government to organise an indaba
at which a legal framework should be developed to monitor the tradition
which symbolically turns boys into men.
The organisation said the ceremonies breached the rights to human
dignity, life, freedom and security of the person, freedom of movement and
residence, health care, food, water, social security, and education.
The Democratic Alliance said it was appalled by the latest deaths
resulting from botched circumcisions. “This is a purely criminal matter and charges should be laid against those who so opportunistically pervert
traditional customs into cruelty to others,” a DA statement said.
The New National Party also called for legislation to monitor the
functioning of initiation schools.
“It is very important to use the right technique and adequate hygiene
otherwise the boys will die of excessive bleeding, infection or will
even be infected by the HI virus,” the NNP said.
The first boy was found in the mountainous Ratanda area on Monday
evening. He died on his way to hospital. On Tuesday morning, local residents informed the police about four more bodies in the area.
A police helicopter collected the bodies and it was established that
more boys who participated in the ceremony had gone missing. They later
found about 50 boys hiding in the area.
The group of Sotho boys were from Orange Farm, near Vereeniging, and
had been in Ratanda since the beginning of June. – Sapa
Dated: June 26 2002 at 05:40PM
Source: Independant Online
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?newslett=1&cli…br>B265&set_id=1