Johannesburg - Limpopo police could not confirm a report
on Wednesday that initiation school teachers stole 20 pigs from a Limpopo
farmer because he was not circumcised.
"At this time, all I can confirm is that police are
investigating a case of stock theft," police spokesperson Ronel Otto said.
"A man claims that on 23 June, a group of people
entered a kraal where he kept his pigs and stole them. Investigations continue
and no one has been arrested."
The New Age newspaper reported on Wednesday, that Mafole
Machika, 57, said his pigs were stolen by a group of people from a local
cultural initiation camp in a village in Jane Furse.
"The mob, armed with sticks, knobkerries, axes and
pangas, stormed my yard undressed to their waists," Machika was quoted as
saying.
"They took my 20 pigs while shouting that I was a
worthless man who had not been culturally circumcised... All I want is justice.
Every year during cultural initiation rituals, gangs of boys and men insult me
about my private parts."
He told the newspaper the Nebo police station commander
told him it was the traditional law of the land that he be treated like that
because he was uncircumcised.
