President Cyril Ramaphosa has praised the National House of Traditional Leaders for their role in managing the initiation season. This is despite some initiation schools going ahead with the practice despite it being banned. At least eleven initiates died in the Eastern Cape during the December summer initiation season. Just over twenty were hospitalised due to botched circumcisions and dehydration. Ramaphosa was addressing the annual opening of the National House of Traditional Leaders in Parliament. Courtesy #DStv403