Can someone help me out here – is the story about the banning of roosters in Swaziland a hoax?
A report has been flying around the Internet this week saying that Mbabane council has banned people from keeping roosters because they are too noisy.
It has appeared in numerous news websites, and also on humour sites, across the world. But the story was never published in Swazi newspapers until yesterday (Thursday 22 May 2008) when the Swazi Observer lifted it from the Internet.
What has made it so appealing is the reference to troublesome cocks. (Readers in some parts of the world will immediately get my point here, but others will wonder what on Earth I’m talking about.)
The report seems to have originated with the AFP news agency in France, which sent it across the globe.
You can read it here and make your own mind up.
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