South Africa: Boy dies at circumcision school

News 24 (South Africa) ^ | November 28, 2005

[willyd]

would anyone care to tell me what the heck a circumcision school is? do they give the old speech there that goes like this...look to the left of you...look to the right of you...look at the end of your penis...two of those won't be there by the end of the semester.

[CzarNicky]

A circumcision school is where the younger tribe members go to learn the customs of the tribe. For instance if initiation for the tribe required burping the alphabet backwards that is where they would teach them. Once successfully initiated they cut the end of their penis off.

[Stoat]

would anyone care to tell me what the heck a circumcision school is? do they give the old speech there that goes like this...look to the left of you...look to the right of you...look at the end of your penis...two of those won't be there by the end of the semester.

ROTFLMAO!!

That's certainly a better explanation than anything that was included in the article  :-)

This article from the BBC may help a little.....they are schools for teaching tribal and clan initiation practices

BBC NEWS Africa South Africa circumcision deaths

South Africa circumcision deaths
 

Five traditional surgeons have been arrested by South African police after the deaths of some 20 youths from botched circumcisions in the past few weeks.

Another 100 have been injured - some having been severely beaten during the initiation rituals.

The young men in the eastern Cape belong to the Xhosa ethnic group for whom circumcision is considered part of the passage into manhood.

The authorities say the problem stems from the growth of illegal initiation schools.

The BBC's Carolyn Dempster in South Africa says demands are growing for tighter regulations to control initiation practices.

Worries

A law was recently introduced requiring initiation schools to be licensed and only allowing circumcisions to be performed on youths aged 18 and older.

But Eastern Cape provincial Health Department spokesman Sizwe Kupelo told Reuters news agency that boys as young as 11 had died.

Each year thousands of young men go into the bush alone, without water, to attend initiation schools.

Many do not survive the ordeal.

In some cases circumcisions are performed with blunt, unsterilised knives, and there are severe punishment beatings for forgetting parts of rituals.

The operations are performed in the winter when South African schools are on holiday.

[willyd]

It's really about the comradory and the business relationships that you form afterwards.

[Stoat]

It's really about the comradory and the business relationships that you form afterwards.

Oh LAWD!!!!!

1.  I don't want to know what the diploma looks like

2.  The Senior Prom will likely be a rather morbid affair...  "oh, you survived the circumcision!  That's great!  But, I guess that means you're going to be out of commission for awhile, doesn't it?"

3.  I don't want the school janitor's job.

[willyd]

I went to Cirumcize U!

[willyd]

At graduation dinner they all fight over who gets to leave the tip...lol

[Stoat]

I went to Cirumcize U!

<<<<  tears of laughter streaming down my furry stoat face

What do you suppose the school mascot would be?

And the name of the football team?

 

[Solamente]

African Faux Calamari?

[Stoat]

At graduation dinner they all fight over who gets to leave the tip...lol

good gracious....I'm laughing so hard I can hardly type anymore   :-)

The waittress' 'tip jar' would be quite a sight.......   LOL

[willyd]

Do they throw them in the air at graduation?

[sure_fine]

Dollars to donuts this happened at an islamic chop shop (which is reason # 1,001 no person in his right mind would ever convert to islam: 8 or 80, you'll have to be circumcised).




WOW, I been ready since I came out of the hospital when I was born........lol

[martin_fierro]

Boy dies at circumcision school

The moral of our story:

DON'T CUT CLASS.

[cardinal4]

Circumcision school?

[mikrofon]

Hey, life's a bris...

[zimdog]

hah.

[TDunn]

Death is one of the complications of circumcision, even in the United States. Why would anyone who is not Jewish risk their son's death once they learn that neonatal circumcision is not medically necessary?

The United States is the only country in the world that still circumcises most baby boys for non-religious reasons. However as parents learn more about circumcision, the infant circumcision is dropping. In 2003 only 56% of baby boys were circumcised. In the western states only 31% of baby boys were circumcised.

[skinkinthegrass]

What do you suppose the school mascot would be?

what else?....Go NADS!

[gorush]

Circumcision is no laughing matter...I was circumcised as an infant...and couldn't walk for a year!

[MikefromOhio]

in South Africa?

I don't think so.

This sounds like an African Tribal deal, not an Islamic thing....