- Launch of Schoolboy Syllabus Teachers’ Training Programme: The training programme has started at Nyandeni Great Place, following a partnership with Walter Sisulu University, to educate teachers and facilitators on guiding boys in traditional male circumcision.
- Objectives of the Schoolboy Project: The project aims to equip schoolboys with knowledge and skills to prevent health complications from male circumcision and promote positive values of manhood to enhance community cooperation.
- Significance of Community and Educational Involvement: His Majesty King Ndamase Ndamase emphasized the importance of involving teachers and schools to address issues related to traditional male circumcision and ensure safer practices.
- Practical Tools for Teachers through Sibuyisela Umdlanga Komkhulu: The programme provides life orientation teachers with practical tools to help guide boys into manhood responsibly, involving schools and communities in the process.
Day one of a three-day training programme has started at the Nyandeni Great Place, where teachers and facilitators gathered for the Schoolboy Syllabus Teachers’ Training Programme. This follows last week’s official launch of a partnership between the Great Place and Walter Sisulu University.
The Schoolboy project is designed to provide schoolboys with the knowledge, attitudes, health behaviour, and skills needed to prevent deaths and complications linked to traditional male circumcision. It also promotes values of acceptable manhood to strengthen cooperation within Nyandeni Local Municipality in the OR Tambo region.
His Majesty King Ndamase Ndamase expressed optimism, saying, “It’s been a while since we have been trying to solve the problems around our tradition of male circumcision. I am glad the teachers are involved in this project because we have been going around schools talking about the beauty and dangers of our tradition. This is the start and I hope it will not end here at Nyandeni Great Place but reach other places as well until we have solved the problems surrounding our tradition.”
The programme equips Life Orientation teachers with practical tools under the Sibuyisela Umdlanga Komkhulu initiative, ensuring schools and communities play a central role in guiding boys safely into manhood.
Schools currently participating in the training include Makaziwe SPS, Pondolwendlovu SPS, Nyandeni JSS, Mthomde JSS, Nkqwiliso SPS, Rainy SPS, Zinkumbini JSS, Zwelicacile PS, and Nonesi SPS.
