Ritual circumcisions cause amputations

Dr Van der Merwe said the surgical team is yet to review the success of the operation, and may then carry out further transplants.

Circumcisions are performed on boys and young men as a rite of passage to adulthood in some rural parts of South Africa.

Stellenbosch University said earlier that experts had estimated there could be as many as 250 penis amputations a year in the country because of botched circumcisions.

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