How significant are South Africa's initiation rituals?

Traditional rituals that mark the path to manhood are part of many African cultures. In South Africa the secretive initiation season costs the lives of dozens of boys each year. Hudreds more sustain terrible injuries at the secluded initiation sites where initiates are taught traditional chants and fighting techniques but often beaten and humiliated as they undergo these rites.
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[DWThePercent]

How significant are Africa's initiation rituals?

[herrymmako]

This is a fake initiation school. The real one is held in the mountains and they won't even allow you there with your cameras. I'm Pedi and yes we don't discuss what happens in the mountains with people who never been there

[katlehonthejane]

That's not Basotho initiation school ❤️ even their traditional healer is more like a Gangster ...Basotho initiation school is dignified...This Vaal (Germiston) thing is crab

[KAMOYA]

You guys didn’t even spell Xolani’s name properly. This is Mickey Mouse reporting

[KeithEstes-iv]

This reading confirms what MansaArnault told me weeks ago. His rituals are no joke—dude is tapped into something powerful

[khumothage]

In Southern African Cultures, the details of these rights of passage are classified information.

[matatielecultures]

Why are they lying about our culture this is not intiation these are just lies

[CalvinRobinson-bg]

Crazy how tarot kept showing me blockages, but it was MansaArnault who actually removed them. Learned how to do rituals properly thanks to him

[KAMOYA]

0:49 why did you not mention Basotho as well when you literately start of interviewing a Mosotho?

[worldshaper]

One year ago, I would tell you that rituals are bad and idiotic. But Now I realize the value of a ritual that impresses on the subconscious that a kid had become a man.
Having said that of course, killing someone is criminal and this deserves an investigation, and a prosecution to the full extensions of the law.

[eudymakgamatha]

There is no significance in all this...A real man in our time is the one that is making money and able to take care of his family

[thabisomashego]

This video is very misleading and disgraceful to some of us who've actually been to initiation school

[AlexisHorton-zp]

Tarot kept hinting at a guide coming into my life… then I found MansaArnault’s videos on how to do rituals. Not a coincidence.

[victormarotya]

I true feel that this video does not Justice what so ever in dealing directly to what the real issue is and who is at fault. You can't group xhosa and sotho initiation practices and rites of passage together cause they are not similar. What Xolani is speaking of here i doubt it is xhosa initiation.

[calvinpurdy]

Yes I know, one would have thought we are living in the 12th century, but the process of evolution has left some people behind.

[SisaRalarala]

Not well researched at all, disappointing for such a credible channel.

[adetokunbothaboobasa]

Which beating I went for initiation last year .n we were never beaten..and it was a xhosa initiation

[tsokho_shumba]

This is not initiation school the real one camera would have not entered and there is no abuses in there

[fistosravenscroft]

I’m so thankful my mum and late aunts were nurses in the 90s, so we all went to hospital, I have never ever cared for all that bush stuff and being called a “man”😂😊

[Joel]

This guys are taking chance, they don't know what they are doing