My circumcision was botched and I don't want other boys to suffer, says dad

A young man applies traditional white clay for skin protection during a traditional initiation process, on July 11 2017, in the Coffee Bay area in Umtata. File photo.

Image: Mujahid Safodien/AFP A young man applies traditional white clay for skin protection during a traditional initiation process, on July 11 2017, in the Coffee Bay area in Umtata. File photo.

Thanduxolo Jack has five children, but he considers himself lucky to be a father at all after a botched initiation-school circumcision when he was 18.

Now, in the run-up to the summer initiation season, Jack has joined forces with a handful of other Xhosa fathers in an attempt to prevent dozens of young men dying.

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