{"id":208308,"date":"2026-02-03T12:23:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208308"},"modified":"2026-02-03T12:23:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:23:05","slug":"initiation-season-20-deaths-reported-in-eastern-cape-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=208308","title":{"rendered":"Initiation season | 20 deaths reported in Eastern Cape so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAST LONDON &#8211; Twenty young men have died since the start of the 2025 initiation season in the Eastern Cape. The OR Tambo District recorded the highest number of deaths, followed by Amathole. 13 of the deaths followed legal circumcisions, while seven were linked to illegal initiation schools. Hundreds more boys have been treated for<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/news\/initiation-season-20-deaths-reported-eastern-cape-so-far\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST LONDON &#8211; Twenty young men have died since the start of the 2025 initiation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208308-initiation-season-20-deaths-reported-in-eastern-cape-so-far.webp",480,282,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208308-initiation-season-20-deaths-reported-in-eastern-cape-so-far-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208308-initiation-season-20-deaths-reported-in-eastern-cape-so-far-300x176.webp",300,176,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208308-initiation-season-20-deaths-reported-in-eastern-cape-so-far.webp",480,282,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208308-initiation-season-20-deaths-reported-in-eastern-cape-so-far.webp",480,282,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208308-initiation-season-20-deaths-reported-in-eastern-cape-so-far.webp",480,282,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208308-initiation-season-20-deaths-reported-in-eastern-cape-so-far.webp",480,282,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208308-initiation-season-20-deaths-reported-in-eastern-cape-so-far.webp",480,282,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208308-initiation-season-20-deaths-reported-in-eastern-cape-so-far.webp",480,282,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/208308-initiation-season-20-deaths-reported-in-eastern-cape-so-far.webp",480,282,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/208309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}