EZEMVELO KZN Wildlife honoured the late Zulu monarch Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi with two giraffes and six impalas.
The wild animals will be meat for mourners during the day when his body will be brought back to his home on Friday, 15 September.
The truck from Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, loaded with two giraffes and six impalas, arrived at Prince Buthelezi's home in KwaPhindangene in Ulundi north of KZN on Thursday, 14 September evening.
The wild animals were offloaded from the truck, and the excited mourners began taking pictures, skinned them and prepared them.
A Ezemvelo KZN official told Daily Sun that they were paying respect to the Zulu monarch's traditional Prime minister by letting people eat giraffes and impala meat as they are mourning for him.
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"We do this only because he was a traditional Prime minister for the Zulu monarch, and it is not related that he was also a political leader.
The giraffe meat is good. As a monarch's traditional prime minister, people can eat it while mourning for him. It will help the family to have plenty of meat for mourners," he said.
One of the mourners, Ntokozo Zulu, told Daily Sun that he can't wait to eat Giraffe and impala meat.
"It will be my first time eating this meat, and I don't know what it tastes like. I never thought that giraffe meat is good for people, but I will try it and see how it tastes," he said.
