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Python scare
20 Jan 2015 at 08:13hrs | Views
TRADITIONAL healer Msuseni Dindi adores snakes.
So when a friend saw people trying to kill a python in the nearby mountains, Msuseni rushed over and saved it.
And now it lives as quietly as a well-behaved makoti in a cage in his yard!
Some of Msuseni's neighbours are afraid of the snake. But others have welcomed it.
Kids gather around the cage to get a close look of the slithering newcomer at Mount Moria near KwaMashu, north of Durban.
Frightened neighbours claim that ever since its arrival two months ago, the African python has not eaten a thing.
They say Msuseni (58) is placing his three young kids' lives in danger.
"What will happen the day the snake gets hungry?" one concerned neighbour asked.
But neighbour Mboneni Chiliza (59) said he was not afraid of the humble, quiet snake.
"The snake poses no threat to anyone. The kids are also not scared of it.
"It is the adults who are afraid because they lack information," he said.
Msuseni told Daily Sun that he did not keep the snake for the healing purposes.
"Last year another friend brought me a dead snake. I used its insides for healing and decorated my door with its skin."
Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife spokesman Musa Mntambo said a permit was required to keep a python as a pet.
"My colleagues in Durban will engage Msuseni and determine whether he is fit to keep the snake or not," he said.
So when a friend saw people trying to kill a python in the nearby mountains, Msuseni rushed over and saved it.
And now it lives as quietly as a well-behaved makoti in a cage in his yard!
Some of Msuseni's neighbours are afraid of the snake. But others have welcomed it.
Kids gather around the cage to get a close look of the slithering newcomer at Mount Moria near KwaMashu, north of Durban.
Frightened neighbours claim that ever since its arrival two months ago, the African python has not eaten a thing.
They say Msuseni (58) is placing his three young kids' lives in danger.
"What will happen the day the snake gets hungry?" one concerned neighbour asked.
But neighbour Mboneni Chiliza (59) said he was not afraid of the humble, quiet snake.
"The snake poses no threat to anyone. The kids are also not scared of it.
"It is the adults who are afraid because they lack information," he said.
Msuseni told Daily Sun that he did not keep the snake for the healing purposes.
"Last year another friend brought me a dead snake. I used its insides for healing and decorated my door with its skin."
Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife spokesman Musa Mntambo said a permit was required to keep a python as a pet.
"My colleagues in Durban will engage Msuseni and determine whether he is fit to keep the snake or not," he said.
Source - dailysun
