JOHANNESBURG -- The young South African thought he was going to the hills to become a man. He came back with a horrifying injury that made him an outcast. In 2012, Asanda lost his penis to gangrene in ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela’s casket was draped in a lion skin, an ox was ritually slaughtered and a family elder kept talking to the body’s spirit: The state funeral for South Africa’s ...

A traditional South African ceremony where teenage boys are circumcised by unskilled ‘surgeons’ has ended with 39 deaths and left dozens more mutilated. During the ‘initiation ceremony’, the ‘surgeons ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Five people were killed and 17 injured at a traditional ceremony in a South African village when gunmen, thought to be from a rival group in the local tribe, opened fire on ...

From her baptism in Liberia to Christmas years later in her adopted New York City, Mamie Manneh never lost the longing to celebrate religious rituals by eating monkey meat. Now, the tribal customs of ...

JOHANNESBURG, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Five people were killed and 17 injured at a traditional ceremony in a South African village when gunmen, thought to be from a rival group in the local tribe, opened ...