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IN THE NEWS: Support for virgin girls project
Traditional healer and activist Thuthukile Kabini from Belfast village in KwaMhlanga has received support from the provincial department of social development for her initiative to promote virginity and abstinence among women under 21.IN THE NEWS: She tries to keep kids virgins!
It takes a village to raise a child. Traditional healer Thuthukile Kabini was inspired by this saying and started an organisation called the Abstain Virgins Girls Group in South Africa.IN THE NEWS: Love connection with Dr Khathhide!
He's well-known for telling it like it is - without fear or favour! He's the author of Bone of my bone, a former columnist and is also known as the "sex pastor".IN THE NEWS: Virgins hit the street
More and more young Ndebele girls in Mpumalanga are choosing to abstain from sex. In September last year there were 300 girls in the Abstain Virgins Girls Group founded by Thuthukile Kabini (46), a traditional healerMore than one reason to “lock the cookie jar”
An article in the November’s homegrown glossy True Love, explores the ironically sexy concepts of abstinence and celibacy. But unfortunately this piece leaves something to the imagination…by leaving out HIV.
In examining why some women choose to “lock the cookie jar” in the face of overwhelming messages that sex is, well, sexy, the article focuses on abstinence as a means of spiritual and emotional preservation but not as a very viable method of avoiding HIV and other STIs.
While we might, as the article suggests, live in what seems like a sexually charged and sexually liberated era, the advent of HIV and other nasties like gonorrhoea has made sex more dangerous and possibly more taboo tainted than ever.
The King’s speech: Focusing on the role of men
In his speech delivered at the weekend’s heritage day celebrations, Zulu king Goodwill Zwelithini took an uncharacteristic and more welcome approach to HIV prevention messaging, focusing on men’s role in the epidemic.
The Sowetan covered the Shaka Day celebrations in Johannesburg and quoted Zwelithini as saying that HIV-positive men needed to stop spreading the virus. The king also advised that men should be faithful to one partner at a time.
Zulu Reed dance: virginity testing, purity (and prevention?)
While the Swazis are 'defending' their Reed dance virgins against “unscrupulous” men who aim to court and compromise them, the Zulu Reed dance is in a different, but related, pickle.
In a The New Age (TNA) article covering the weekend’s Zulu Reed dance, King Goodwill Zwelithini is quoted saying that many of the maidens in attendance were not virgins but had paid to secure fake certificates which said otherwise.
Some might scoff at the fact that the ever controversial virginity testing seems to be becoming a bit of a farce. But the heart of the matter is that virginity test or not, young women are having sex and possibly exposing themselves to HIV because abstinence is the lone arrow in their HIV prevention arsenal.
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