An Mpumalanga initiation school owner is accused of abducting and circumcising youths in Machadodorp.<\/p>\n
Black initiation schools are run by witchdoctors, known as “traditional healers”. <\/p>\n
This is in contravention of the Mpumalanga Ingoma Act which states that no person may be forced to attend initiation school against their will.<\/p>\n
They use extreme intimidation on potential customers by claiming to have a mystical powers.<\/p>\n
Affected parents say they fear for their children’s lives and that their children have been captured without their consent.<\/p>\n
At least 30 initiates died in Mpumalanga two years ago due to circumcisions performed in dubious surroundings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An Mpumalanga initiation school owner is accused of abducting and circumcising youths in Machadodorp. Black initiation schools are run by witchdoctors, known as “traditional healers”. This is in contravention of the Mpumalanga Ingoma Act which states that no person may be forced to attend initiation school against their will. They use extreme intimidation on potential … Continue reading “Witchdoctor accused of abducting youths”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[11737,11738,7887,11739,3534],"class_list":["post-19008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-black-voodoo","tag-circumcisions","tag-initiation","tag-inyanga","tag-traditional-healers"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19009,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19008\/revisions\/19009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}