MANY a strange thing happens in Zululand, but the patient preacher helping the porker whose head was stuck in a pail must rate as one of the funniest.
At the time, I was a councillor, travelling to eShowe one Sunday morning to deliver a church service, when suddenly I caught sight of a ‘funny looking’ road hog.
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Since it was Sunday morning, and I am a teetotaler, I knew it could not be the effects of alcohol or a ‘pig’-ment of my imagination.
On closer inspection, I realised it was a porker, with its head wedged so far into a 25-litre drum that he could not see his way home.
The open wounds around his neck, and the short piece of barbed wire stuck in his hide, were tell-tale signs that this unfortunate pig had been through hell in a vain attempt to free himself.
The poor porker must have thought it was the butcher after his bacon when I first approached him, because he let out an almighty grunt and took to his hooves.
I managed to edge closer to the hog in a few stealthy movements.
Realising I only had one chance at freeing the hog, I bent over at the waist and – with my arms outstretched and hands open – I was ready to pounce.
In one quick motion, I prised the pail off the pig’s head, and the ungrateful swine ran off into the veld without so much as a snort of thanks.
However, as I proceeded on my way to do my humble task, I realised that the pig was liberated, as free as one whose burdens of sin had been lifted, and can now focus on the good things life has to offer.
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