{"id":78086,"date":"2025-07-31T21:45:41","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=78086"},"modified":"2025-07-31T21:45:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:45:41","slug":"mass-circumcision-ceremony-leaves-39-boys-dead-and-dozens-more-mutilated-after-botched-procedures-during-tribal-initiation-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/07\/31\/mass-circumcision-ceremony-leaves-39-boys-dead-and-dozens-more-mutilated-after-botched-procedures-during-tribal-initiation-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass circumcision ceremony leaves 39 boys dead and dozens more mutilated after botched procedures during tribal &#8216;initiation&#8217; in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div id=\"articleIconLinksContainer\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/07\/31\/09\/100797891-14958121-image-a-3_1753952298455.jpg\" alt=\"Boys generally undergo the centuries old ritual aged between 16 and 26 and are unable to sit on tribal meetings without.\u00a0Pictured: File image\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"count-text\">The 2025 tribal &#8216;initiation ceremony&#8217; where teenage males in <span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-69d4ab60-6dec-11f0-b3d3-17b240cfb10f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/south_africa\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">South Africa<\/a><\/span> undergo agonising circumcision has ended \u2013 with 39 deaths and dozens more boys mutilated. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14958121\/Mass-circumcision-ceremony-South-Africa.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The 2025 tribal &#8216;initiation ceremony&#8217; where teenage males in South Africa undergo agonising circumcision has ended \u2013 with 39 deaths and dozens&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/mass-circumcision.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78088,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78086\/revisions\/78088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}