Posted on 07/28/2013 11:41:32 AM PDT by Olog-hai
This is a grim time of year for a hospital in the rolling hills of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province, where mattresses are laid on floors to cope with the stream of young men with severe injuries from botched circumcisions at initiation ceremonies. Some patients with amputations, a doctor says, were told by their handlers that their genitals would grow back, reflecting a fog of misinformation that makes it hard to stop what has become an annual health crisis.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The traditional ritual, which goes back centuries, is meant to usher youths into manhood, inculcating them with the responsibilities to become valued members of their community. Former South African President Nelson Mandela wrote about the spiritual meaning of his own circumcision in the same province where the Holy Cross Hospital is struggling to handle the influx of wounded males.
At least 60 males have died at initiation schools in eastern South Africa since the start of the initiation season in May, health officials confirmed. Thirty of them died in the Eastern Cape in the last six weeks, and 300 others were hospitalized with injuries. …
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What does the Red Bishop Tutu have to say about this?
How much better this nation was under the minority government.
Wow looks like Obamacare hit South Africa first.
He’s too busy trying to encourage rejection of the true God and worship of a non-homophobic false god.
This practice goes back centuries. Not started by ANC.
Tutu may be a wanker.
The practice of botched circumcision, specifically?
I don’t think the botching is intended, it’s a consequence of medical procedures carried out by people who aren’t trained to do medical stuff properly.
I doubt procedures were any less often botched in 1813 than today.
A lot smaller population then, though.
Never let a guy on drugs chop off part of your penis with a machete.
IINM, this “initiation ritual” was also in one of the first few episodes of the 1977 TV mini-series, “Roots’.
What does the Red Bishop Tutu have to say about this?
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Well, old Des is kinda busy just now greasing the skids for his rapid descent into the netherworld.
Even now Screwtape is hollerin’, “There’s meat on the menu boys!”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu would rather go to hell than to a homophobic heaven. The iconic South African churchman hasn’t lost any of the fire in his belly when it comes to freedom fighting, despite his retirement, and is still a vocal campaigner for gay equality in Africa. Speaking at the launch of a United Nations’ gay rights campaign in Cape Town, Tutu said he “would not worship a God who is homophobic,” adding that you could count him out of paradise if it had an anti-gay bias. “I would much rather go to the other place,” he said. He went on to denounce any faith that discriminated against gay people.
I remember that. Alex Haley the liar/propagandist “re-imagined” it as a Muslim circumcision ceremony.
These folks lend fresh new meaning to the oft-heard “Ooops! Hey, sorry ‘bout that, dude!” mantra.
"Never let a guy on drugs chop off part of your penis with a machete."
A machete might be an improvement over what their version of Obamacare nurses are doing.
and these pervs are now in charge of SA just saying
Maybe the initiation thing is the real problem, doc?
Archbishop Desmond Tutu would rather go to hell than to a homophobic heaven.
Apparently Archbishop Tutu doesn't read his Bible. Heaven isn't about homosexuals, or marriage, or wealth, earthly type stuff. You would think an Archbishop would know that.
5.56mm
Add to that, outright plagiarist:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots_(TV_miniseries)#Legal_issues
And liar/propagandist, is spot-on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots_(TV_miniseries)#Historical_accuracy
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