Mangel på lovgivning i bjergenklaven Lesotho i det sydlige Afrika gør det muligt for drenge helt ned til 12 år at droppe ud af skolen og søge mod bjergene for at gennemgå ritualer, som gør dem til mænd.
MASERU, 17. November, 2011 (IRIN): Mojalefa Molikoe, 16, has been out of school for more than two years now.
He spends his days herding the family’s animals in Ha Rabotsoa, 56 km from Maseru, the capital of Lesotho, a tiny country surrounded by South Africa.
After undergoing a traditional initiation, he considered himself a man and capable of making the decision to drop out of school independently of his parents.
He does not regret it. “Things were not going so well for me at school; I was bored,” yet Molikoe says he is disturbed that his family have allowed his younger brother, Motjope, who is only 12 years old, to succumb to peer pressure and go to initiation school.
The Lesotho government introduced free primary school education in 2000 as a key strategy in achieving its goal of education for all.
Enrolment rates increased rapidly and 82 percent of primary school aged children (80 percent of boys; 84 percent of girls) are now attending school, according to UNICEF.
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