It's nearly winter in South Africa, which means the opening of winter initiation schools is approaching. These rituals mark a ...

Used as a form of initiation into adulthood and a sign of beauty or membership of a specific clan, scarification is a way for tribes to wear their identities on their faces. The ceremony is a ...

As many as 33 young men are now thought to have died over two weeks in one province of South Africa as they took part in traditional initiation ceremonies ... from the Xhosa tribe attend a ...

everyone must keep in mind the agrarian origins of initiation rites and the colonial origins of the modern South African state. In the precolonial era, families and tribal leaders had the duty of ...

As many as 33 young men are now thought to have died over two weeks in one province of South Africa as they took part in traditional initiation ceremonies ... from the Xhosa tribe attend a ...