The Zimbabwe Guardian ^ | The Chronicle | TZG reporters
THE community of Lower Gweru and its surroundings in the Midlands Province was left shell-shocked when a goat gave birth to human-like creature that had the combined features of a man and a goat.
A report in The Chronicle newspaper said the goat gave birth to the 'creature' on Sunday morning in Maboleni area.
The creature had a human head, face, nose, shoulders and human-like skin that had very scanty furs.
It had goat features from the “shoulders” to the legs.
Its sagging stomach prevented curious villagers from determining whether it had human or animal sex organs as it protruded covering the front part.
Villagers said the end product was so scary that even dogs were afraid to move close to the goat.
Reuters
Published: March 18, 1996
JOHANNESBURG, March 17— A pet baboon suspected of being a witch in disguise was killed by "necklacing" by South African villagers, a Johannesburg newspaper reported today.
A crowd of about 150 people caught the baboon as it passed through their village near the popular Kruger National Park game reserve, beat it with metal poles, soaked it with gasoline and put a burning tire around its body, The Sunday Times said. "Necklacing" with burning tires was a type of punishment meted out in South African townships to suspected black collaborators with the former white apartheid government.