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sjambok
Sign in to saveThe sjambok (), or litupa, is a heavy leather whip. It is traditionally made from adult hippopotamus or rhinoceros hide, but it is also commonly made out of plastic.
Key facts
- Weapon.name
- Sjambok
- Weapon.image
- 295px
- Weapon.caption
- A plastic sjambok used by South African police
- Weapon.origin
- Dutch Cape Colony (now part of South Africa)
- Weapon.type
- Whip
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- knout
- Country of origin
- South Africa
- Material used
- Nile hippopotamus
- Image
- Sjambok (plastic).jpg
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Article
6 sectionsContents
- Use by police
- South Africa
- United Kingdom
- Other types
- In popular culture
- References
The sjambok (), or litupa, is a heavy leather whip. It is traditionally made from adult hippopotamus or rhinoceros hide, but it is also commonly made out of plastic.
A strip of the animal's hide is cut and carved into a strip long, tapering from about thick at the handle to about at the tip. This strip is then rolled until reaching a tapered-cylindrical form. The resulting whip is both flexible and durable. A plastic version was made for the apartheid era South African Police, and used for riot control.