{"id":6808,"date":"2013-07-08T07:30:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T07:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6808"},"modified":"2013-07-08T07:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T07:32:00","slug":"circumcision-culture-has-become-criminal-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6808","title":{"rendered":"Circumcision culture has become criminal: minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6809\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6809\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Xhosa_initiates.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6809\" alt=\"Xhosa initiates\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Xhosa_initiates-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Xhosa_initiates-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Xhosa_initiates-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Xhosa_initiates.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6809\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Xhosa initiates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Illegal initiation schools have turned the circumcision culture into &#8220;something criminal&#8221;, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said in The Times newspaper on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The mushrooming of initiation schools is seen every single day in Eastern Cape. Hooligans&#8230; tsotsis take advantage and prey on this custom.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It has turned into something criminal and no longer has anything to do with culture. Young lives are being destroyed,&#8221; said the minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Eastern Cape health department said at the weekend that 30 initiates had died from circumcision-related injuries and nearly 300 had been hospitalised.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Some parents are blackmailed into paying for their children&#8217;s safety,&#8221; said Motsoaledi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Because of the belief that children must be left at these initiation schools, parents do not report them missing to the police in fear of going against tradition.&#8221; &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illegal initiation schools have turned the circumcision culture into &#8220;something criminal&#8221;, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said in The Times newspaper on Monday. &#8220;The mushrooming of initiation schools is seen every single day in Eastern Cape. Hooligans&#8230; tsotsis take advantage and prey on this custom. &#8220;It has turned into something criminal and no longer has anything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=6808\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Circumcision culture has become criminal: minister&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[571,3769,610,3770,3771],"class_list":["post-6808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-aaron-motsoaledi","tag-circumcision","tag-eastern-cape","tag-initiation-school","tag-tradition"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Xhosa_initiates.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6811,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions\/6811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}