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Meet the wolves brought by apartheid-era South Africa to brutalize natives

Meet the wolves brought by apartheid-era South Africa to brutalize natives

By GhanaSummary NewsroomPan-Africa

” The All Hearts Wolf and Animal Foundation is not the only wolf sanctuary in South Africa.

So the wolves imported to South Africa to serve the machinery of apartheid security became the unwanted relics of that system," says Sandra Swart, Professor and Chair of the Department of History at Stellenbosch University.

The aim was to create a wolf-dog mixed breed that could be used by police for crowd control or by the military during South Africa's border wars in Namibia and Angola.

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