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ACTION! African Crisis - Sangoma Bull Slaughter during Arts Festival
Feb 8, 2010
Focus: Animal Welfare
Action Request: Write E-Mail
Location: United States
                  SUCCESS !!!!!!

9th Feb 2010 11:21PM
South African Time

                PERMISSION HAS BEEN DENIED ! ! !   

THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO TOOK THE TIME TO SEND EMAILS. 

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Sangoma Bull slaughter Cape Town

EMAILS URGENTLY NEEDED - PLEASE ASK THE MAYOR OF CAPE TOWN TO WITHOLD PERMISSION FOR THE BARBARIC RITUAL SLAUGHTER OF A BULL IN THIBAULT SQUARE, CAPE TOWN - THIS WEEKEND 13th to 14th FEBRUARY 2010!

charles.cooper@capetown.gov.za; contactus@capetown.gov.za; mayor.mayor@capetown.gov.za

SAMPLE LETTER

Dear Mrs Zille and councillors

I beg of you to not indulge in bloodsport by giving permission for a ritual slaughter of a bull in the middle of Cape Town!  The ITC festival is one of creativity, not death and blood running in the streets of this beautiful city!  A cultural belief that an animal's slaughter can purify anyone's soul or cancel out past horrors of APARTHEID is simply diobolical thinking.

If you sanction this - you are sanctioning witchcraft!

An offering of fruit will do just as well.

Please do the RIGHT thing.  Do not give permission for this atrocity!

Yours sincerely
[Name]
[Country]

South Africa: Withcraft: Witch Doctors (Sangomas) plan to slaughter bull in centre of Cape Town
Date Posted: Thursday 04-Feb-2010

By Fouzia van der Fort
Staff Reporter

A group of sangomas plan to slaughter a bull on Thibault Square during the opening ceremony of a festival aimed at drawing people to the CBD.

But a decision from the City of Cape Town to grant permission to the organisers of the annual Infecting the City Festival is still pending.

The performing arts festival happens on the streets and public squares of the city.

The sacrifice is part of its "Human rite" theme, which will showcase a host of traditional ceremonies in the city centre.

Brett Bailey, curator of the festival, said he approached a group of Xhosa sangomas on how they proposed opening the festival in a traditional manner.
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He said they had suggested a slaughter to commemorate their Xhosa ancestors, who had died as prisoners on Robben Island between the 19th century and the 1980s.

Bailey, who had done some research, suggested using the square, which had been under the ocean at the time and connected the rite with the sea flowing to Robben Island.

"The Infecting the City team is seeking permission from the city authorities for the ritual slaughter," he said. It was not a "shock gesture" because the suggestion came from traditional leaders. There was a lack of Xhosa spirituality in the city and the goal was to encourage "marginalised" groups to come to the CBD.

"We don't see Xhosa centres. We have churches for Christians, synagogues and mosques. In planning this festival we looked at who is not represented, who is absent from the city," he said.

Charles Cooper, spokesman for the City of Cape Town, said the permission for the ritual slaughter was still pending.
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