I was shocked to read that even today, there are
traditional animal sacrifices going on in South Africa.
Thank god there are laws and the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals that are stopping this madness.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is heading for a clash with a Cape Town doctor who wants to slaughter a cow on his suburban property.
The general practitioner is Xhosa and intends to kill the animal at his home in Somerset West in the traditional manner as an offering to his ancestors.
In terms of this practice, the bellowing of the dying cow when slaughtered in the Xhosa ritual is indicative that the ceremony is accepted by ancestors, but to animal welfare organisations it is cruelty.
