Police and traditional and government leaders have slammed large gatherings of amakrwala in towns and villages, urging residents to avoid these meetings as they often result infights. The leaders said the illegal gatherings called ukudodisana (questioning each other’s legitimacy on the rite of ulwaluko), where amakrwala (young men who graduated from initiation schools) scrutinise one another’s genuine manhood and share alcohol, was not only a disgrace to manhood, but bred criminality and gang.