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rawmeatbetweenmyteeth: Degloving
rawmeatbetweenmyteeth: This photograph was taken during the final years of South Africa’s 40-year apartheid era, and shows a Zulu, named Lindsaye Tshabalala, being hacked with a machete after having been set alight by supporters of theAfrican National Congress who believed he was spying for the rival group The Inkatha Freedom Party.During the apartheid years, South Africa’s white minority government encouraged divisions between rival black groups, such as the ANC and Inkatha, believing this would diminish their increasing influence. They believed the ensuing violence - including the worldwide publication of the murder of Lindsaye Tshabalala - showed that the ANC would be incapable of ruling South Africa, and it would thus justify the white government’s retention of power.