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    City Press‏Verified account @City_Press 17 Dec 2018

    21 initiates have lost their lives: Nkosi Mwelo Nonkonyana, chairperson of the Eastern Cape House of Traditional Leaders, says “things are really bad this summer and we are calling on the government to declare the deaths a disaster” http://ow.ly/VGs630n0K0A pic.twitter.com/mDmizQYT8Y

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    • Lynette Faragher Mihle Isla AubreyKhumbu 🇿🇦 Xola Radebe Nomo Brenda Macqueen Drikus Weideman Ntando YamaHlubi Sibizo LISA
    82 replies . 223 retweets 124 likes
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      2. DKR‏ @DkrMtsweni 17 Dec 2018
        Replying to @oluvix @City_Press

        Dakiwe wena

        1 reply . 1 retweet 6 likes
      3. Aletta‏ @MabonaPriscilla 17 Dec 2018
        Replying to @DkrMtsweni @City_Press

        wena u sober ?

        2 replies . 1 retweet 20 likes
      4. DKR‏ @DkrMtsweni 18 Dec 2018
        Replying to @MabonaPriscilla @oluvix @City_Press

        Yeah always sober

        0 replies . 0 retweets 0 likes
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      2. #BreakYourHeart‏ @ciamusicworld 17 Dec 2018
        Replying to @City_Press

        Declare disaster and then what...bring the initiates back from the dead perhaps?! 😡😡😡😡

        2 replies . 0 retweets 11 likes
      3. Bumnandi Ng’bulale.‏ @ziphezinhle 17 Dec 2018
        Replying to @ciamusicworld @City_Press

        Protect others from the same fate perhaps?

        1 reply . 0 retweets 10 likes
      4. #BreakYourHeart‏ @ciamusicworld 17 Dec 2018
        Replying to @ziphezinhle @City_Press

        Over 20 years....20 years government has been trying to intervene and the traditional leaders REFUSE to be progressive. Now that kids are dead, they suddenly govt to intervene and declare disaster?

        0 replies . 2 retweets 22 likes
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      2. Richard Spoor‏ @Richard_Spoor 17 Dec 2018
        Replying to @City_Press

        A small price to pay. It’s where boys become men, where they are taught how to treat women and to respect their elders. It’s only right that those who survived the mutilation and the well intended beatings, starvation and abuse, get to inflict the same on the next generation.

        17 replies . 9 retweets 41 likes
      3. Jeffrey Bloch-Oracle of truth to power‏ @JeffreyBloch3 17 Dec 2018
        Replying to @Richard_Spoor @City_Press

        I think it’s where inter generation demons are passed down..

        1 reply . 0 retweets 23 likes
      4. Cee‏ @CeeTalking 19 Dec 2018
        Replying to @JeffreyBloch3 @Richard_Spoor @City_Press

        Which demons are you referring to?

        1 reply . 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. Jeffrey Bloch-Oracle of truth to power‏ @JeffreyBloch3 19 Dec 2018
        Replying to @CeeTalking @Richard_Spoor @City_Press

        The demons of violence that infest our people.

        0 replies . 0 retweets 0 likes
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      1. Edwin Mbugua‏ @54AfricanVoices 17 Dec 2018
        Replying to @City_Press

        I think those conducting this ritual should be charged with Murder or at least Culplable Homicide. Every other Traditional Leader will think twice, you’ll probably bump into them at @Dischem this time next year buying sterile medical supplies with their own money.pic.twitter.com/dbyzG6JVp3

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      2. cleo tha don..‏ @thacleodon 17 Dec 2018
        Replying to @City_Press

        Sotho ppl go through initiation but we hardly ever hear of deaths during. Kukhon okshaya amanz e EC

        2 replies . 2 retweets 18 likes
      3. Maba‏ @Mabachamp 17 Dec 2018
        Replying to @thacleodon @City_Press

        Basotho not Sotho. Thank you

        2 replies . 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Melle Emmanuel‏ @karra_melle 18 Dec 2018
        Replying to @Mabachamp @thacleodon @City_Press

        Basotho=sotho people. That's how it works when English is used. Now can we get back to the point?!

        0 replies . 0 retweets 7 likes
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      2. Khosana Bandile Nzima‏ @nzima_sizwe 17 Dec 2018
        Replying to @City_Press

        Time to close this schools let doctors do the cutting and the schools to do the training. It makes no sense to continue on something that is clearly not working.

        1 reply . 1 retweet 9 likes
      3. Vincent Phorie‏ @VPhorie 17 Dec 2018
        Replying to @nzima_sizwe @City_Press

        How is it not working? We were 127 and we all came back healthy and strong. There were no deaths in our region that year... 1000s make it back.

        2 replies . 0 retweets 1 like
      4. Khosana Bandile Nzima‏ @nzima_sizwe 18 Dec 2018
        Replying to @VPhorie @City_Press

        As long as the are deaths its not working

        1 reply . 0 retweets 7 likes
      5. Vincent Phorie‏ @VPhorie 19 Dec 2018
        Replying to @nzima_sizwe @City_Press

        This is dumb reasoning... People from various things take polony for instance, should the whole thing be classified as "not working" because of isolated instances of failure?

        1 reply . 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Khosana Bandile Nzima‏ @nzima_sizwe 19 Dec 2018
        Replying to @VPhorie @City_Press

        How dumb are you mara this is not isolated it happens in Eastern Cape,Western Cape,North West, KZN tell me this is isolated. where young mans life where stolen by thieves in the name of culture which is unless and meaningless

        0 replies . 0 retweets 0 likes
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