 The amaMpondo practised the ritual until King Faku prohibited it in the 1820s after he had lost several of his sons from complications.Initiation schools re-emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, and the ritual is now being practised on a large scale.In January 2014, Desmond Tutu urged traditional leadership and government to intervene, and "to draw on the skills of qualified medical practitioners to enhance our traditional circumcision practices."