To reduce the scourge of initiation deaths, the Amathole District Municipality has embarked on a campaign to provide water tanks to some initiation schools that admit hundreds of initiates.
A distraught mother Nomthandazo Busakwe who lost three sons two of whom were initiates in a mass shooting on Monday at an initiation school near Butterworth, is angry with God.
In an incident that has shocked the Eastern Cape, two initiates and their elder brother, who was also their traditional nurse, were shot dead by unknown gunmen at their initiation school.