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Live and don’t die

5 January 2019

9:00 AM

5 January 2019

9:00 AM

Nakhane was twenty-years old when, in the eyes of his community, he became a man.

It was aged 20 that he travelled into the South African bush. It was aged 20 that he underwent circumcision without painkillers. And it was aged 20 that he recovered, in isolation for weeks and painted white, under the tutelage of a ‘caregiver’.

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