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2 on run after initiate dies
Mthatha :: South Africa | 4 months ago
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Two men are on the run, after performing an illegal circumcision on a 16-year-old boy, resulting in his death, the Eastern Cape health department said on Monday. "They performed a circumcision on the boy last week. The boy died at the illegal initiation...
Tags: Sizwe Kupelo, Eastern Cape health department, circumcisions deaths
Deadly steps to manhood
Mthatha :: South Africa | 4 months ago
Credibility The Eastern Cape health department has launched a crackdown on illegal surgeons running initiation schools after the death of 37 boys last month from botched circumcisions. Departmental spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said 11 illegal surgeons were arrested...
Tags: Sizwe Kupelo, Eastern Cape health department, spokesperson sizwe, circumcisions deaths
Paramedic dies in crash
Cape Town :: South Africa | 5 months ago
Credibility Kupelo said initial reports from paramedics on scene at the bus and truck accident, indicated that several people sustained minor injuries, and one person was critically injured. "That is all the information I have for now...Kupelo said the cause of the...
Tags: Sizwe Kupelo, critically injured
Circumcision toll up to 11
Cape Town :: South Africa | 5 months ago
Credibility The latest victim was a boy from the Mbizana area who died on the way to hospital on Wednesday morning, spokesman Sizwe Kupelo said. All 11 would-be initiates had been attending illegal circumcision schools, he said. All the deaths, bar one at Bhisho,...
Tags: Sizwe Kupelo, deaths toll, South Africa, provincial health, spokesperson sizwe, Transkei, illegal circumcised, circumcised deaths, Eastern Cape health department, rotting penis
IOL, South Africa: River water tested after deaths
Mthatha :: South Africa | 6 months ago
Credibility Eastern Cape health officials were on Sunday collecting river water and stool samples in Mfeko village, west of Mthatha, after three men died. "We have since sent officials to conduct tests," department spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo said.
Tags: Eastern Cape Health Department, Sizwe Kupelo, spokesperson sizwe, Mthatha, South Africa
Teens circumcise 4 boys
Mthatha :: South Africa | about 1 year ago
Credibility Spokesperson for the department of health Sizwe Kupelo said the two boys aged 17 and 18 were arrested on Saturday for allegedly running an illegal initiation school in Libode. They had already circumcised four boys when they were arrested, he said. "The...
Tags: boy died, Sizwe Kupelo, spokesperson sizwe, Eastern Cape, South Africa, initiated school, IOL
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