I was delighted to get to one of the ceremonies of the Maswati village initiation school.
It started with the slaughtering if a sheep (ugh!) – I think I got to see more than I wanted and the smell was unbelievable! Then it’s the women’s job to clean the intestines and fill it with left over meat to make sausages. The men butchered the rest of the sheep and started cooking it….
We spent the next few hours watching dancing, songs and story telling….. This was class!
The chief and the sangoma (traditional doctor) then brought us to the kraal (A resting place for animals and where the first and last parts of the school take place). Initiation school is not talked about and is a kind of taboo so to be able to go there and be told about it was impressive!
We met with boys who have graduated, as you can not see the boys who are in the school. This school is for males and females, and as a female we were only allowed to hear about there roll of girls, but we managed to get some info out of the lads after!
When we went back to the village it was time to eat. Seeing the sheep slaughtered and how it was cooked did nothing for my apatite!
It started with the slaughtering if a sheep (ugh!) – I think I got to see more than I wanted and the smell was unbelievable! Then it’s the women’s job to clean the intestines and fill it with left over meat to make sausages. The men butchered the rest of the sheep and started cooking it….
We spent the next few hours watching dancing, songs and story telling….. This was class!
The chief and the sangoma (traditional doctor) then brought us to the kraal (A resting place for animals and where the first and last parts of the school take place). Initiation school is not talked about and is a kind of taboo so to be able to go there and be told about it was impressive!
We met with boys who have graduated, as you can not see the boys who are in the school. This school is for males and females, and as a female we were only allowed to hear about there roll of girls, but we managed to get some info out of the lads after!
When we went back to the village it was time to eat. Seeing the sheep slaughtered and how it was cooked did nothing for my apatite!
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Well did the sheep taste nice?
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