AR-News: (SA) 2 goats raped, now will be killed

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'Bestiality' blamed for drought   20/01/2004 10:59  - (SA)   
 

Polokwane - Thirsty Limpopo villagers are so desperate for rain that they are 
planning to sacrifice goats to appease vengeful ancestors.

Xihosana villagers, near Malamulele in Limpopo, believe the drought is 
punishment by outraged ancestors after a local youth raped two goats.

Willy Shivambu, 22, was prosecuted and jailed for 10 months on bestiality 
charges late last year, but local farmers and sangomas are now demanding that 
both goats be sacrificed to appease disgusted ancestors.

"The goats have become a serious threat to our well-being. Bestiality is 
taboo in our culture, and we warned before the drought that the rains would stop 
unless there was retribution. Now the drought is destroying us. We have no 
choice but to sacrifice the animals in a special cleansing ceremony," says 
villager Xinghalana Chauke. 

No drinking water 

An estimated one million people, mostly rural villagers, have been left 
without drinking water in the province after 122 government boreholes, scores of 
rivers, and even major dams dried up during December in the worst drought to hit 
South Africa in almost 100 years.


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