The high level of initiation deaths this winter
Drive with John Perlman · 17 July 2026 · 9m
Speaker 1: Seven oh two drive. Let's focus our attention now at nineteen minutes past four on Speaker 1: a time that should be a moment of huge pride for young men and in Speaker 1: their families, for communities, and yet so often when we talk about the winter the Speaker 1: initiation season, the reports focused very much on the tragedy that seems to follow every Speaker 1: single year. At the moment, the twenty twenty six winter customary initiation season has led Speaker 1: to forty three deaths and a number of other young men have been disfigured and Speaker 1: suffered trauma of various kinds. It's something we as a country contemplate every time around Speaker 1: this time of year, and it's something we always talk about confronting. Is anything being Speaker 1: done? Is anything working? Let's put those questions and welcome to the show. My next Speaker 1: guest, Professor Dorothy markoal Farisani, is an associate professor and the director at the School Speaker 1: of Law at the College of Law at Tunisa. Prop Welcome and thanks very much Speaker 1: for giving us this time. I mean I intro it by saying we engage with Speaker 1: us every single year. Are any interventions working? It's easy to feel from the distance Speaker 1: that I'm at that's, you know, it's same and same again every single year, but Speaker 1: perhaps there are glimmers of lights. What are you seeing. Good afternoon to you, Good. Speaker 2: Afternoon, John, and good afternoon to your listeners. John. The interventions that have taken place Speaker 2: over the years did not work because they were mainly at provincial level, right and Speaker 2: what was needed was state intervention. Now, since twenty…
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