Parents, doctors ‘colluding to declare underage initiates older’

As the initiation death toll in the Eastern Cape has increased to 22, the provincial government has established that some medical doctors are working with parents to fraudulently sign documents declaring unfit and under-age boys as older than 18, the age when they are allowed to undergo traditional initiation rites...

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