Jan Gerber, News24
National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise is currently on trial for animal cruelty relating to dead and emaciated animals found on her farm in the North West.
The man tasked with looking after the animals on the farm, said he left because he had no food and had not been paid.
Modise's legal representative, advocate Dali Mpofu SC, told the court that it was the caretaker who had abandoned and confined the animals.
The man tasked with looking after National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise's animals says he left her North West farm because he hadn't been paid and had no food.