Chairperson of the Eastern Cape House of Traditional Leaders, Chief Langa Mavuso says, Mothers prepare boys for medical fitness of initiates, whether or not they do not have underlying diseases and so on, the beer is prepared by women, the diet for initiates is prepared by women and everything that would make sure that the boy becomes well, it is a woman that drives that, even the grass cutting for thatching the house is done by women.
Jaanong, fa basadi ba naga e ba ka amogela maikarabelo a bona, a ntlha e le a go nna bomme mo basimaneng ba rona, mme rona jaaka banna, re ba rute go nna banna ba ba siameng, fa re ka dira jalo, ke akanya gore re tla bo re le mo maemong a a botoka a gore re ka re, batsadi ba dinako tsa rona ba agile setšhaba se se siameng.