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He added that many families were traumatised by the sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe received a report from the police that there are many people who are hanging themselves on these trees. As church leaders, we felt that we cannot fold our arms when our people are killing themselves for unknown reasons. We do not want this thing to be fashionable in our society,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"embed other\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"322\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=322&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FCityVisionOnline%2Fvideos%2F963353544916444%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Marubelela, the last incident happened two months ago. 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