South Africa: Yengeni Slaughter Shows Deep Cultural Divisions

opinion

I am shocked by some of the reactions that the picture of a Xhosa sacrificial bull on the front page of the Cape Argus has elicited.

Many white South Africans have written letters condemning the Argus for printing the photographs and calling the ritual sacrifice of the bull "a barbaric act".

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