Chairperson, I move without notice:
That the Council -
1) notes with concern that the Tara Klamp that is extensively used by the KwaZulu-Natal provincial department of health to circumcise thousands of men has been shown in trials conducted in Orange Farm to be unsafe and caused a wide range of complications;
2) further notes that despite the disastrous results of the Orange Farm trials, the KwaZulu-Natal department of health continues to use the Tara Klamp, thus putting thousands of men's health at risk; and
3) therefore calls on the KwaZulu-Natal department of health to immediately cease the use of the Tara Klamp as a tool for circumcision and to only use the forceps-guided method until full clinical tests have been successfully done on alternative methods of circumcision to prove their safety and efficacy.
I so move.