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JOHANNESBURG – Initiation is common practice for various cultural groups across the country.

It symbolises the coming of age for males and is seen as a joyous occasion.

But in Orange Farm, south of Johannesburg, illegal initiation schools have hijacked the practice and turned it into a money-making scheme.

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