As beforehand reported, Kaizer Chiefs goalkeeper Bontle Molefe has honoured his Sotho custom from boyhood to manhood.

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 manhood. Molefe shared the photographs through Instagram, earlier than it was additionally shared by FootballSA on Facebook.

Two days later, Molefe was pictured in the course of the homecoming ceremony clad in his conventional blanket and selection of garments and carrying the standard kota.

In the meantime, Molefe is predicted to rejoin his Kaizer Chiefs teammates for coaching when the staff returns from Cape Town on Monday.

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MORE ABOUT SESOTHO MANHOOD INITIATION

According to Dodho, initiation or Lebollo la banna is a cultural and conventional follow that the Basotho society follows to assemble the manhood identification. It is a ceremony of passage within the sense that boys or ‘bashemane’ cross 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 information of household life and intensive classes on grownup male identification.

Traditional initiation colleges of the Basotho are carried out over a time frame, (various from a number of weeks to six months) in secluded areas away from settlements. The colleges are present in Lesotho, Free State, Western Cape and the Eastern Cape. The conventional initiation academics, often known as basuwe in Sesotho, are generally aged males with substantial financial, political and social standing inside Basotho communities. 

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