Parliament, Sunday, 12 August 2018 – The Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Government and Traditional Affairs will tomorrow begin public hearings into the Customary Initiation Bill in Port Elizabeth.

The Customary Initiation Bill is intended to provide effective regulation of initiation schools, and generally circumstance around customary initiation. Most of South Africa’s tribes practice and still respect their respective initiation traditions.

The public hearings are scheduled to happen throughout the country over the next two weeks.

The programme is available here: https://tinyurl.com/ya2khv7k

ISSUED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMUNICATION SERVICES ON BEHALF OF THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE PORTFOLIO COMMITTEE ON COOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE AND TRADITIONAL AFFAIRS, MR RICHARD MDAKANE.

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