OMG..... snakes and rats. I thought I have seen it all with the chinese kante even right under our noses gona le batho bajang ntho tseo................. Report Abuse
Feb 3, 2012
Philharry
When I see such things happening in other African countries, it's when I start to appreciate this country. The only problem we are facing, it's these tender and corrupt gov. officials who want to turn this country like Guinea.
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I have visited most of the African countries; there's only poverty . Most cities are similar to LIMPOPO AKA ZIMPOPO. Report Abuse
Feb 3, 2012
dimpho_4U
jerr..nothing healthy there...rats carry diseases maan and snakes i don't want say,,hai no Report Abuse
this country has got about 700 000 people and its an oil producing country.would have been that dificult for everybody to get a house? Report Abuse
Feb 3, 2012
Papage
This makes see and apreciate the other sied of Apartheid, I just wonder if this country was never under apartheih, where would we be, maybe eating Exle Rottens and Birds. Let us give credit to the John Vosters for keeping this country under control for so many years and try to stop the Zumas who are taking it to Deep Africa, were eating anything is ok, I believe some eat human beings as well. Report Abuse
Feb 3, 2012
sakhomba
@Brian Homewood, Reuters
brian f.o.k.o.f what is wrong with some african rat and snake?
it looks perfectly fine to me mos? Report Abuse
heee.... some of your comments guys are amazing it's you too quick to judge b4 thinking cause i know of tribes here in S.A wher a rat, horse, cats, and worms are regarded as a meal.and as for your comment papage the less said the better Report Abuse
Feb 3, 2012
maphapheni
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww sies i wud never even if i was in survivor i wud never eat a snake or that nasty rat Report Abuse
Feb 3, 2012
Shredder
“You can walk down the street at ten o’clock in the evening and nothing will happen.”
My friend used to work there for Murray and Roberts, he says crime is actually close to non-existent. He says even if you can forget a cell phone at a tavern, pub, whatever you will find it there tomorrow. If there is someone who stays closer to where you stay, s(he) will bring it to your place. personally, I'd prefer to stay where there is peace and no crime. Who cares whether I'll be eating snakes or rats. Afterall everybody in the v.illage is eating them. Who will look down on me except bo Brian Homewood.
Of course my friend did tell me about snakes like Brian Homewood says.
I can't believe Sowetan says v.illage is offensive. Report Abuse
Feb 3, 2012
Shredder
@nhini
heee.... some of your comments guys are amazing it's you too quick to judge b4 thinking cause i know of tribes here in S.A wher a rat, horse, cats, and worms are regarded as a meal
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LOL, you are so right. Masonja is disgusting. Horses disgusting. But hey, if it the delicacy for some people it is delicacy for them. Report Abuse
Feb 3, 2012
MORNACHIES
Eish wa bona bjale .........yrrrrrrrrrrrrr noga ? Report Abuse
o thoma go totelwa bjale o bolela mogwete ka Limpopo san....skare tlwaela, jou moerskont Report Abuse
Feb 3, 2012
Domkraag
@Papage
Pathetic and stupid comment! Ever seen what they eat in Asia? And in North America where they eat bears? And in France and other European countries where they eat snails and tentacled creatures from the deep sea? And where does apartheid feature there? So you think trading your freedom for "acceptable food" is so great an idea? Report Abuse
Feb 3, 2012
magabucks
People eat all sorts of things all over the world - so gud ppl don't be so disgusted at other people's delicacies. I certainly know that there are ppl localy, n yes SA, who eat snakes - there r restaurants even - that sell croc meat unless a crocodile is not a snake. My only problem here is the hygiene aspect of the whole thing - doesn't look clean at all, and whether this is legal with all sorts of species going extinct. A frog is so tasty - u shd tr it sometime! Report Abuse
Feb 3, 2012
Domkraag
@magabucks
You right. Do you know there are people who get surprised that we eat pap? To them it's cattle and chicken feed. What about the chicken feet and "mogodu" that we so much like? It surely is disgusting to others. Report Abuse
Feb 4, 2012
Arrangement
talldude
come n stay in Alex guys pls
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lmao uyangibulala. But on a serious note, i would like to think that bush rats are less infected than those devils in Alex. Report Abuse
Feb 4, 2012
Gwambe
@Philharry
pfutsek, if u dont have something to say just keep quite and leave our beloved province Report Abuse
Feb 4, 2012
Ibleedgreenwhite
Typical ignorant South Africans, always trying to sound intelligent and special but always ending up sounding stup!d! So everyone must eat oysters,Lobsters, hamburgers , Pizzas, French fries before they appear civilized and upmarket to you. Meat is meat.
In the first picture ,they showed what is locally known as Porcupines and Bushcutters they are not rats but since you dummies (including the reporter) don't know your left from your right you just call them rats to demean the people eating them. I happen to eat both animals and they taste better than beaf and lamb combined.
In the Second picture they showed a Python, Africans have been eating snakes long before the westerners came so there is absolutely nothing new or shocking there.
The only thing wrong with those pictures is the environment where the meat is being sold. I will agree that it is filthy and i will never buy meat from such a place.
Whenever i am back in Nigeria,i always treat my self to a plate of pounded yam and bushcutter or porcupine mixed with ogbono soup at a local restaurant. It is very expensive but worth every penny. The food is way healthier than the KFC and McDonalds you lot eat down here that turn your women into cholesterol riddled oversized blobs and your men into potbellied, fat assed, bedroom wimps.
You South Africans are a disgrace to the African race, you spit on everything African and call it disgusting but worship everything that is not African.
When An Afrikaner eats a springbok or makes biltong out of it ,it is fine. When an Afrikaner eats an ostrich or makes biltong out of it,it is okay, however when your own people eat a snake it is ewww and disgusting. Have some pride in your heritage people.
Snakes are ewww to you but calamari is not, have you seen how disgusting a live or dead octopus looks? But you still eat calamari from ocean basket and you have the nerve to insult others who eat snakes??? In the Uk , Quails are shot down with double barrel guns and eaten for breakfast but that it is not disgusting or barbaric to you because it is done by white people.
Many of you eat sushi NOT because you enjoy the taste but because you have inferiority complex and want to appear "Modese". I am a proud African, a Nigerian, i love African delicacies and I will never spit on my heritage just to please my peers. It you don't wish to eat African food that is your prerogative but don't look down upon it call it disgusting.
The As!ans whose delicacies many people make fun are the healthiest human being on earth because some of the natural things they eat,while the westerners are dying of cancer and other strange diseases at a young age due all the chemical induced cholesterol filled food they eat.
With attitudes like this, i wonder why you were so pissed when the whole world criticized your VUVUzelas during the world cup? We can also say Vuvuzelas are lousy,loud & barbaric and make no sense in soccer!
Many of you black saffers are lost, you seem to hhate your skin so much that your will spit on anything that originates from Africa. It shows that you guy are still plagued by Apartheid, you need to wake up and fr3e your self from your mental prisons. Let no westerner tell you how to eat , dress, talk or breath. Make your own rules and embrace everything African. The As!ans are respected race today because they embraced their own culture and promoted it. Today people all over the world are dining in As!an restaurants. If you DON’T lift your race up, your race will always be spat on. WORD!
@NDA..I am not angry ,i just can stand it when blacks attack each other to please whites.I will not allow a Nigerian to diss SouthAfricans or their culture and vice versa.I am for African unity ,we are stronger when we stand together.We should not let western Journalists demean our people or continent.When the whole western world was against SA hosting the world cup ,Nigeria and the rest of west Africa threw their weight behind SA,you know why? Because we are blacks and we only support our own.We could have voted for our northern neighbours egypt but we voted for distant SA because we feel that they are kind and hence our brothers.
@Revulshionary...LOL! ,It does not bother me when white saffers attack blacks or Africans because i do not regard racist white saffers as humans or worthy of any respsonse.Racist whites are mentally deranged so engaging them is out of the question.It is however painful when people of my race whom i call my brothers and sisters attack my people especially their way of life. Report Abuse
Feb 4, 2012
Ibleedgreenwhite
@Revulshionary...trust me when you eat grilled porcupine and bushcutter, it will feel like the first time you had sex.
As for African Rock Python being a protected specie,i don't have a clue.Pythons are not daily meals in west Africa,it is a special delicacy which means it is very expensive and not always on the menu.Most poor people can't even afford the it's meat except for the hunters who catch them.I in particular do not eat snakes,i just can't stomach it.I have friends who eat snakes and really enjoy it,one once told me that it tastes like a mix of pork and fish.In Nigeria there are 222 tribes and languages and each tribe has it own delicacy.I grew up seeing people eat ,turtles, sharks,frogs, lizards, locusts,big ants,wood caterpillers, Antelopes,Lions,Tigers,Dogs,Horses,Leopards and a lot of other stuff that will scare ordinary folks. Report Abuse
Feb 6, 2012
SedibengH2O
Snake is best when cooked in sauce while the rat lends itself to grilling, according to local gourmets.
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR GOOD HEART BUT JUST SEND ME AN EMAIL am miss Jane janebabyshow@yahoo.com because i really have some vital thing to tell you if you do not mind Thanks as i will be waiting to hear from you Report Abuse
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WordofGod
yaggiee mannn!!Report Abuse
BraMbo
scaredReport Abuse
Snow-White
WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!..so disgusting pic 1 & 2 siesReport Abuse
MsKinkyakaKamaSutra
OMG..... snakes and rats. I thought I have seen it all with the chinese kante even right under our noses gona le batho bajang ntho tseo.................Report Abuse
Philharry
When I see such things happening in other African countries, it's when I start to appreciate this country. The only problem we are facing, it's these tender and corrupt gov. officials who want to turn this country like Guinea.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I have visited most of the African countries; there's only poverty . Most cities are similar to LIMPOPO AKA ZIMPOPO.
Report Abuse
dimpho_4U
jerr..nothing healthy there...rats carry diseases maan and snakes i don't want say,,hai noReport Abuse
dimpho_4U
@Philharry,hahahaha "Zimpopo"Report Abuse
maneater
this country has got about 700 000 people and its an oil producing country.would have been that dificult for everybody to get a house?Report Abuse
Papage
This makes see and apreciate the other sied of Apartheid, I just wonder if this country was never under apartheih, where would we be, maybe eating Exle Rottens and Birds. Let us give credit to the John Vosters for keeping this country under control for so many years and try to stop the Zumas who are taking it to Deep Africa, were eating anything is ok, I believe some eat human beings as well.Report Abuse
sakhomba
@Brian Homewood, Reutersbrian f.o.k.o.f what is wrong with some african rat and snake?
it looks perfectly fine to me mos?
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Sjamolelo
Pic 3 looks computer generated....sowetan explain.Report Abuse
Shredder
Yummy!!Report Abuse
nhini
heee.... some of your comments guys are amazing it's you too quick to judge b4 thinking cause i know of tribes here in S.A wher a rat, horse, cats, and worms are regarded as a meal.and as for your comment papage the less said the betterReport Abuse
maphapheni
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww sies i wud never even if i was in survivor i wud never eat a snake or that nasty ratReport Abuse
Shredder
“You can walk down the street at ten o’clock in the evening and nothing will happen.”My friend used to work there for Murray and Roberts, he says crime is actually close to non-existent. He says even if you can forget a cell phone at a tavern, pub, whatever you will find it there tomorrow. If there is someone who stays closer to where you stay, s(he) will bring it to your place. personally, I'd prefer to stay where there is peace and no crime. Who cares whether I'll be eating snakes or rats. Afterall everybody in the v.illage is eating them. Who will look down on me except bo Brian Homewood.
Of course my friend did tell me about snakes like Brian Homewood says.
I can't believe Sowetan says v.illage is offensive.
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Shredder
@nhiniheee.... some of your comments guys are amazing it's you too quick to judge b4 thinking cause i know of tribes here in S.A wher a rat, horse, cats, and worms are regarded as a meal
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LOL, you are so right. Masonja is disgusting. Horses disgusting. But hey, if it the delicacy for some people it is delicacy for them.
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MORNACHIES
Eish wa bona bjale .........yrrrrrrrrrrrrr noga ?Report Abuse
talldude
come n stay in Alex guys plsReport Abuse
TKay
jooo jaaa neee...talk about visiting foreign countriesReport Abuse
Bdoobs
And the whole team is made up of foreigners, Spanish, Brazilians and other African countries...Report Abuse
Revulshionary
Snow-WhiteWhy Sies... You must get around in Africa a bit more.
This is what happens if you let go of your farmers.
SA is lucky to have butcheries, believe me....
One day we will BEG our farmers to stay !!!....
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Keafixa
@Philharryo thoma go totelwa bjale o bolela mogwete ka Limpopo san....skare tlwaela, jou moerskont
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Domkraag
@PapagePathetic and stupid comment! Ever seen what they eat in Asia? And in North America where they eat bears? And in France and other European countries where they eat snails and tentacled creatures from the deep sea? And where does apartheid feature there? So you think trading your freedom for "acceptable food" is so great an idea?
Report Abuse
magabucks
People eat all sorts of things all over the world - so gud ppl don't be so disgusted at other people's delicacies. I certainly know that there are ppl localy, n yes SA, who eat snakes - there r restaurants even - that sell croc meat unless a crocodile is not a snake. My only problem here is the hygiene aspect of the whole thing - doesn't look clean at all, and whether this is legal with all sorts of species going extinct. A frog is so tasty - u shd tr it sometime!Report Abuse
Domkraag
@magabucksYou right. Do you know there are people who get surprised that we eat pap? To them it's cattle and chicken feed. What about the chicken feet and "mogodu" that we so much like? It surely is disgusting to others.
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Arrangement
talldudecome n stay in Alex guys pls
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lmao uyangibulala. But on a serious note, i would like to think that bush rats are less infected than those devils in Alex.
Report Abuse
Gwambe
@Philharrypfutsek, if u dont have something to say just keep quite and leave our beloved province
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Ibleedgreenwhite
Typical ignorant South Africans, always trying to sound intelligent and special but always ending up sounding stup!d! So everyone must eat oysters,Lobsters, hamburgers , Pizzas, French fries before they appear civilized and upmarket to you. Meat is meat.In the first picture ,they showed what is locally known as Porcupines and Bushcutters they are not rats but since you dummies (including the reporter) don't know your left from your right you just call them rats to demean the people eating them. I happen to eat both animals and they taste better than beaf and lamb combined.
In the Second picture they showed a Python, Africans have been eating snakes long before the westerners came so there is absolutely nothing new or shocking there.
The only thing wrong with those pictures is the environment where the meat is being sold. I will agree that it is filthy and i will never buy meat from such a place.
Whenever i am back in Nigeria,i always treat my self to a plate of pounded yam and bushcutter or porcupine mixed with ogbono soup at a local restaurant. It is very expensive but worth every penny. The food is way healthier than the KFC and McDonalds you lot eat down here that turn your women into cholesterol riddled oversized blobs and your men into potbellied, fat assed, bedroom wimps.
You South Africans are a disgrace to the African race, you spit on everything African and call it disgusting but worship everything that is not African.
When An Afrikaner eats a springbok or makes biltong out of it ,it is fine. When an Afrikaner eats an ostrich or makes biltong out of it,it is okay, however when your own people eat a snake it is ewww and disgusting. Have some pride in your heritage people.
Snakes are ewww to you but calamari is not, have you seen how disgusting a live or dead octopus looks? But you still eat calamari from ocean basket and you have the nerve to insult others who eat snakes??? In the Uk , Quails are shot down with double barrel guns and eaten for breakfast but that it is not disgusting or barbaric to you because it is done by white people.
Many of you eat sushi NOT because you enjoy the taste but because you have inferiority complex and want to appear "Modese". I am a proud African, a Nigerian, i love African delicacies and I will never spit on my heritage just to please my peers. It you don't wish to eat African food that is your prerogative but don't look down upon it call it disgusting.
The As!ans whose delicacies many people make fun are the healthiest human being on earth because some of the natural things they eat,while the westerners are dying of cancer and other strange diseases at a young age due all the chemical induced cholesterol filled food they eat.
With attitudes like this, i wonder why you were so pissed when the whole world criticized your VUVUzelas during the world cup? We can also say Vuvuzelas are lousy,loud & barbaric and make no sense in soccer!
Many of you black saffers are lost, you seem to hhate your skin so much that your will spit on anything that originates from Africa. It shows that you guy are still plagued by Apartheid, you need to wake up and fr3e your self from your mental prisons. Let no westerner tell you how to eat , dress, talk or breath. Make your own rules and embrace everything African. The As!ans are respected race today because they embraced their own culture and promoted it. Today people all over the world are dining in As!an restaurants. If you DON’T lift your race up, your race will always be spat on. WORD!
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NDA
@ IbleedgreenwhiteShooo you sound a bit angry are u ok?
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Revulshionary
Ibleedgreenwhite, you said :""Many of you black saffers are lost, you seem to hhate your skin so much that your will spit on anything that originates from Africa..."
Most of what you say make perfectly sense.... But why does the white SAFFERS escape your wrath.... I thought they are equally guilty......
Please don't cause division.. Please knock them as well....
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Revulshionary
I wait for the West African restaurant with BUSHCUTTER AND PORCUPINE on the main menu...........As for the African Rock Python... Isn't that a protected specie ????....
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Revulshionary
Ibleedgreenwhite,Remember in SA it is Piri Piri Chikin.....
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Ibleedgreenwhite
@NDA..I am not angry ,i just can stand it when blacks attack each other to please whites.I will not allow a Nigerian to diss SouthAfricans or their culture and vice versa.I am for African unity ,we are stronger when we stand together.We should not let western Journalists demean our people or continent.When the whole western world was against SA hosting the world cup ,Nigeria and the rest of west Africa threw their weight behind SA,you know why? Because we are blacks and we only support our own.We could have voted for our northern neighbours egypt but we voted for distant SA because we feel that they are kind and hence our brothers.@Revulshionary...LOL! ,It does not bother me when white saffers attack blacks or Africans because i do not regard racist white saffers as humans or worthy of any respsonse.Racist whites are mentally deranged so engaging them is out of the question.It is however painful when people of my race whom i call my brothers and sisters attack my people especially their way of life.
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Ibleedgreenwhite
@Revulshionary...trust me when you eat grilled porcupine and bushcutter, it will feel like the first time you had sex.As for African Rock Python being a protected specie,i don't have a clue.Pythons are not daily meals in west Africa,it is a special delicacy which means it is very expensive and not always on the menu.Most poor people can't even afford the it's meat except for the hunters who catch them.I in particular do not eat snakes,i just can't stomach it.I have friends who eat snakes and really enjoy it,one once told me that it tastes like a mix of pork and fish.In Nigeria there are 222 tribes and languages and each tribe has it own delicacy.I grew up seeing people eat ,turtles, sharks,frogs, lizards, locusts,big ants,wood caterpillers, Antelopes,Lions,Tigers,Dogs,Horses,Leopards and a lot of other stuff that will scare ordinary folks.
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SedibengH2O
Snake is best when cooked in sauce while the rat lends itself to grilling, according to local gourmets.#########
to each his own.
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bafotsa
Yurk!!Report Abuse
janemimy
THANK YOU FOR YOUR GOOD HEART BUT JUST SEND ME AN EMAIL am miss Jane janebabyshow@yahoo.com because i really have some vital thing to tell you if you do not mind Thanks as i will be waiting to hear from youReport Abuse
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