News24 | OPINION | Zweli Mkhize: Initiation deaths must be treated as a crisis of epidemic proportion

Police reports have recorded 24 initiate deaths in the Eastern Cape by December, and 57 cases related to unlawful initiation practices have been opened in the province. After an oversight visit by Parliament, Zweli Mkhize writes these deaths and injuries must be treated as crises like the epidemics that SA has fought before.