Teen escapes from initiation school after assault
The owner of the school allegedly does not have a permit to operate the place where boys were beaten and abused.
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The owner of the school allegedly does not have a permit to operate the place where boys were beaten and abused.
A GROUP of 11 men who were assisted by Somagwaza Institute to go to the mountain for initiation have returned. The organisation helped the group of men who are between the ages of 26 and 47, whose families where unable to assist.
A 16-year-old boy who escaped from an illegal initiation school two weeks ago is living in fear of being attacked by those who completed the rite of passage.
The Stellenbosch Municipality is currently in a dispute over the matter with the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa).
The commercialisation of initiation schools by individuals who are merely out to fill their own pockets at the expense of the lives of young boys is the reason South Africans have experienced the ongoing issue of mushrooming illegal initiation schools.