Sandy Boreham: On December 18, at the First Fruit Festival in KwaZulu-Natal another bull will be tortured to death in the name of "culture".
ON DECEMBER 18, at the First Fruit Festival in KwaZulu-Natal another bull will be tortured to death in the name of "culture".
How this terrible, cruel and inhuman occasion can be classed as "culture" completely escapes me.
Young men will torture the bull to death with their bare hands, and it is not difficult to imagine the extreme agony to which the poor animal will be subjected, before it eventually dies of its wounds.
Surely the young men administering this torture will be brutalised, and don't we already have enough brutality in South Africa?
Why must so many cultural occasions in South Africa be accompanied with the slaughter of an animal, usually in a cruel manner?
Most civilised cultures abandoned the religious sacrifice of humans or animals many years ago.
It is difficult to imagine the mentality of whoever devised such cruelty to celebrate the first fruits, which surely should be a joyous and happy celebration of new birth, not agonising death?
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