Kaizer Chiefs’ younger goalkeeping expertise Bontle Molefe has undergone his Sotho cultural manhood initiation.

KAIZER CHIEFS STAR BONTLE MOLEFE BECOMES A SOTHO MAN

The 21-year-old goalkeeper, who’s the reserve to the likes of Bruce Bvuma, Brandon Petersen and Fiacre Ntwari within the Amakhosi first staff, has accomplished his ceremony of passage into man. Molefe shared the pictures through Instagram, earlier than it was additionally shared by FootballSA on Facebook.

In the meantime, Molefe is anticipated to rejoin his Kaizer Chiefs teammates for coaching this week.

ABOUT SESOTHO MANHOOD INITIATION

According to Dodho, initiation or Lebollo la banna is a cultural and conventional observe that the Basotho society follows to assemble the manhood id. It is a ceremony of passage within the sense that boys or ‘bashemane’ go the puberty stage and enter the maturity stage to turn out to be males or ‘monna’. Part of the ceremony of the ceremony of passage features a circumcision, studying sacred songs tribal ceremonies. The initiates are given education on the data of household life and in depth classes on grownup male id.

Traditional initiation faculties of the Basotho are performed over a time period, (various from just a few weeks to six months) in secluded areas away from settlements. The faculties are present in Lesotho, Free State, Western Cape and the Eastern Cape. The conventional initiation lecturers, referred to as basuwe in Sesotho, are generally aged males with substantial financial, political and social standing inside Basotho communities. 

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