THE SCOURGE CANNIBALISM INVADES SOUTH AFRICA

The recent spate of stories in the news about face-eating, ripping a man’s heart out of his chest, and serving one’s own penis for dinner and blood drinking has put cannibalism back on the map. It’s horrifying, nauseating and suggests that the coming Zombiepocalypse may are not complete hogwash

In South African, the nation have been visible to some gruesome twirling shook and outraged after a series of incident of human slaughter and cannibalism. In places province like Kwazulu Ntala male gender have been held feasting and harvesting the flesh of other human being. Lately in the in Mount Frere, in the community of KwaBhaca,Eastern Cape a 23 year old man was caught eating a flesh of woman after he slit her throat, this was the second practise of human slaughter and cannibalism in the Province, after vile occurrence in Port St. Johns, whereby an uncle slaughtered his 5-year old nephew and gobbled her flesh and heart and drank the blood. The act of cannibalism is regarded is diabolic and taboo.

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The act is believed to be influenced by factors of black magic, muti Cannibalism was practiced among prehistoric human beings, many people have confessed of being given human flesh to eat as traditional medicine. In April Police from KwaZulu-Natal caught local resident age 35-year eating human flesh. The body was cut up and cooked in a three legged pot

Phillemon Skosan a Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) student explained that “It’s purely act of evilness because it’s unholy and diabolic for a human being to eat another”

Everyone has the right to life, but how is it perceived when one kill and eat another human. It is crime? If someone kills a person to eat the flesh, the cannibal may be charged with murder and the desecration of a corpse or necrophilia. If the cannibal stole the body parts may be charged with theft.

Glen Radebe a Soshanguve resident said that “the act of human slaughter and cannibalism is act of wickedness because human are the only specie that aren’t not supposed to even eat one another”. He added that cannibals should be arrested and be see mental health

In most cultures, the eating of human flesh is completely taboo. However, in some places it has become fashionable for mothers to eat their own placenta after childbirth, a practice known as “placentophagy, also referred to as placentophagia- is the act of mammals eating the placenta of their young after childbirth.

 

Earlier in August in was reputed by the Ladysmith Gazette that hundreds of people in the Amangwe area confessed to cannibalism According various media reports state findings by a former police profiler and forensic psychologist Professor Gérard Labuschagne says that cannibalism in South African was a very rare thing and It’s not occurring frequently and is not associated with muti murder. Labuschagne added that cannibalism could be looked at as a mental health issue, and historically it had occurred during famine.

No one really understand why people gobble each  other. Aside from ritualistic and survival cannibalism, there's only speculation as to why criminal cannibalism occurs. Psychologists have speculated that it may relate to childhood trauma relating to separation anxiety from the mother and resulting oral aggression. In most cases criminals who commit acts of cannibalism are found to suffer from schizophrenia.