| Please use with care in a SSC environment. The sjambok or litupa is the traditional heavy leather whip of South Africa, sometimes seen as synonymous with apartheid but actually much older and still used outside the official judiciary. It is traditionally made from an adult hippopotamus (or rhinoceros) hide, or possibly from the penis of either species, but is also commonly made out of plastic.A strip of the animal's hide is cut and carved into a strip 3 to 5 feet, tapering from about 1 inch thick at the handle to about 3/8” at the tip. This strip is then rolled until reaching a near circular form. The resulting whip is as flexible as whalebone, and very tough. A plastic version was made for the South African Police Service, and used for riot control. The sjambok had a variety of uses, with the most obvious being cattle driving. While it may have been synonymous with slave discipline, They are actually illegal to use in South Africa due to their historic connotations. | ||
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