The new South African president Cyril Ramaphosa is better known to many African farmers as a breeder of Ankole cattle.

Apparently, it was love at first sight when President Ramaphosa spied the native African breed in Uganda in 2004, but was denied permission to import them based on disease control measures.

Undeterred, he purchased 43 cows from the Ugandan president, shipped them to Kenya, artificially inseminated them, and then shipped the inseminated embryos to his farm in South Africa.

Ankole horns are unusually large, with one bull recorded in the Guinness Book of Records, named CT Woodie, with a horn circumference of 103.5cm (40.7in).

Hopefully, they’re the only sharp points he comes across in his new role.

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