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Article: Initiation row judgment on Friday.(News)
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- Pretoria News (South Africa)
- Article date:
- May 20, 2009
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BYLINE: Botho Molosankwe
THE Ndala family will have to wait until at least Friday to know whether they will be able to have an initiation ceremony for their sons on the land on which they live.
And because of the delay, the family's four young men will not be joining about 3 000 others for the first part of the ceremony at their chief's home in Mpumalanga.
The Ndalas requested the Land Claims Court's to intervene so that they be allowed to practise their cultural ceremony on a farm in Bapsfontein.
The family had asked the farm manager, Jacob Visagie, for permission to have an "initiation school" for the family's four young boys on the ...