Ankole cattle

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Ramaphosa scores R2.1 million for Ankole cow in cattle auction ... (Business Insider South Africa)

Ramaphosa sold Ankole heifer for R2.1 million thanks to brother-in-law Patrice Motsepe.

Zaria, a three-years and a half female also sold for R900,000 as well. The Baron cattle generated hundreds of thousands of rands as well, with a 3-month pregnant female in Lot 5 having sold for R400,000, and another female Baron, who’s 2-months pregnant with a heifer calf, having sold for R280,000. “Cinderella is not only beautiful. ‘Tsinakaho’. Cinderella's inherited colours set her apart from all the mottled heifers in the country,” according to Ntaba Nyoni Cattle. The three-years and a half female cow sold for R2.1 million thanks to Motsepe. The mining billionaire spent almost R5 million on four female Ankole cattle. And with a big and polite grin on his face, he posed for the camera with some of the children in the auction house while their parents stood before the president, operating their phone cameras.

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Patrice Motsepe buys Cyril Ramaphosa's Ankole cow for R2,1m (TDPel Media)

Cyril Ramaphosa's Ntaba Nyoni Cattle farm put 72 of the President of South Africa's cows up for auction on Saturday, 5 March, including 16 of his prized.

“They each had long, white, beautiful horns glinting in the African sun, and I suddenly became fixated and couldn’t stop looking at them. According to reports, Ramaphosa’s brother in law, Patrice Motsepe, parted with a sizeable sum for four of the cows. I was intrigued and in awe and fell in love with these creatures immediately,” wrote Ramaphosa in his photobook, Cattle of the Ages: Stories and Portraits of the Ankole Cattle of Southern Africa.

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