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    Ulwaluko, traditional circumcision and initiation from childhood to adulthood, is an ancient initiation rite practised (though not exclusively) by the...
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  • of the problems accompanying the ritual of Ulwaluko Archived 2021-10-03 at the Wayback Machine. Ulwaluko.co.za. Retrieved 2014-03-28. "Bobbitt's Amputation...
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    practices today, even urbanised Xhosa people do still follow them. The ulwaluko and intonjane are also traditions which separated this tribe from the rest...
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    initiation school for transition from boyhood to manhood through *Ulwaluko. Ukuthwalwa Ulwaluko Intonjane Bührmann, M. V. (3 November 1981). "The Xhosa Healers...
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    Justice and several other boys travelled to Tyhalarha to undergo the ulwaluko circumcision ritual that symbolically marked their transition from boys...
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    personal name is strictly prohibited except before parents and rulers. Hazing Ulwaluko Miller, William Ian (1995). Humiliation: And Other Essays on Honor, Social...
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    the homecoming of young men, known as abakwetha in Xhosa culture, after ulwaluko - initiation and religious male circumcision. This beer plays a significant...
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    a person is celebrated at either 18 or 21. In South Africa, the Xhosa Ulwaluko and the Sotho Lebollo la banna circumcision and manhood ceremonies are...
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    Xhosa initiation schools, which perform coming-of-age ceremonies known as ulwaluko which involve circumcision. These ceremonies have been linked to numerous...
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  • against the government. In December 1964, he travelled to Zwelitsha for the ulwaluko circumcision ceremony, symbolically marking his transition from boyhood...
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    initiation schools are to be established. Mokorotlo Circumcision in Africa Ulwaluko Malisha, Lutendo; Maharaj, Pranitha; Rogan, Michael (2008). "Rites of passage...
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  • relationship between two men in the context of the Xhosa initiation ritual of Ulwaluko. Xolani, a factory worker, joins the men of his community at the annual...
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    play the lead role of factory worker Xolani in the film, which deals with ulwaluko – a Xhosa initiation into manhood involving circumcision, which Nakhane...
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  • celebration in being a man.” An example of this would be the Xhosa ritual called Ulwaluko. This ritual is all about masculinity. Its main purpose is to transform...
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  • her step son Siyolo, who had recently emerged from the Xhosa custom of ulwaluko; he defied his father's orders and pleaded that she be met with no harm...
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  • Standard Bank Sikuvile Award for feature stories. In 2013, Malan’s story on ulwaluko initiation ceremonies, which left some young men in Pondoland dead or disfigured...
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