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  • The brief court appearance followed an uproar in the area after four abakhwetha died at initiation schools and more than 50 mutilated, with three having to undergo penis amputations.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • a group of young Xhosa initiates - abakhwetha - who underwent a circumcision ritual.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

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