{"id":82964,"date":"2025-12-31T10:27:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=82964"},"modified":"2025-12-31T10:27:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T10:27:04","slug":"41-men-are-killed-in-south-african-circumcision-initiation-ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/12\/31\/41-men-are-killed-in-south-african-circumcision-initiation-ceremonies\/","title":{"rendered":"41 men are killed in South African circumcision initiation ceremonies"},"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><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/12\/31\/08\/100797887-15424231-The_2025_tribal_initiation_ceremony_where_teenage_males_in_South-a-1_1767170059440.jpg\" alt=\"At least 41 young men have died as a result of circumcision procedures as part of traditional initiation activities in South Africa in November and December, authorities said Tuesday. Picture: File image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At least 41 young men have died as a result of circumcision procedures as part of traditional initiation activities in\u00a0<span data-track-module=\"internal-body-link\"><a id=\"mol-a337f550-e624-11f0-88c9-b72a3c8a34a9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/south_africa\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">South Africa<\/a><\/span> in November and December, authorities said Tuesday.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15424231\/41-men-killed-South-African-circumcision-initiation-ceremonies.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\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>At least 41 young men have died as a result of circumcision procedures as part of traditional initiation activities in\u00a0South Africa in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82964","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\/12\/Initiation-South-Africa.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82964","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=82964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82966,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82964\/revisions\/82966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}