AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS YOUTH LEAGUE
LIMPOPO PROVINCE
21 May 2013
Press statement for immediate release
Death at initiation Schools and suicide at the University of Limpopo
Every nation has to have its distinctiveness and obedience in the manner that
it observes culture and guarantee the society of the importance of adhering to
our customs, such that the world remains in its caring best and adjust fairly
in the daily livelihood.
It is in the culture of most tribes in our country that maturity is ascertained
not only by private parts but by undergoing certain processes, far away from
our households for a prearranged period, under supervision and guidance of the
elderly with certain experiences, who are to guard jealously against death.
The initiation schools are nowadays turned into slaughter houses with people
dying like flies everyday, this is brought by the passion for money meted by
those who initiates schools and some of which do so without having necessary
permission.
The ANCYL Limpopo is humbly making a call to young people and the elderly who
are yet to go to initiation schools to ensure that the schools they go to are
properly coordinated and that the Department of Health and Police are
monitoring compliance on both safety and hygiene. We further urge that people
should equally make use of medical circumcision as freely offered at Public
Hospitals throughout the year.
The South African Police Service should arrest everybody responsible for the
death and impose harsher sentences, we cannot tolerate a situation wherein our
culture is badly misused and brought to shame by self-centered traditional
healers.
If the mortality rate continues to mount as it doesn’t decrease per year, we
should rise as communities against all the Initiation Schools and persuade laws
to only recognize medical circumcision instead, this will not be by intention,
the discarding of our culture, but ensuring that loosing lives should only be
by the will of God, not recklessness.
Suicide at the University of Limpopo
The ANCYL Limpopo has learned with shock and disappointment the unfortunate
death of a student at the University for apparently having had caught his
girlfriend being unfaithful.
Death can never be acceptable, particularly when it is self orchestrated
regardless who did what, we moreover make a call to every young person who is
involving his/herself in romantic relationship to do so morally and understand
the essence of romance and learn its significant rule of faithfulness, and by
no means succumb to temptation, as romance is a democratic not a one party
state, recalling that every action affects our partners.
We are making a humble call to parents, teachers, lecturers and churches to be
frank with children on matters of romance, and continuously enlighten them of
the principles of abstinence to those that haven’t started dating as yet.
Regardless how disenchanted we may fall of our partners, taking our lives
should never be an option, but opt to share with family and friends about our
encounters. We also call for young people to reduce or even abstain from taking
intoxicating substances and accept the Lord as their knight in shining armor.
Universities should ensure that they provide necessary infrastructure for
prayer sessions of students, and also invite counselors on weekly basis. We
send our deepest condolences to the deceased student.
Issued by the ANCYL Limpopo
For enquiries contact the Provincial Spokesperson Cde. Klaas Nono Mabunda at
082 730 4331 or 079 430 4331
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Klaas Nono Mabunda
ANCYL Limpopo Provincial Spokesperson
0827304331
0794304331
0867182705 (fax)
[email protected]
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