More than 50 dogs and cats are doomed to die if the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Komani (formerly Queenstown) cannot rehome them by the end of January.
The NSPCA, South Africa’s biggest animal welfare organisation, has called for a review of the environment department’s authorisation of CGG’s application to conduct a seismic survey off the coast of the southeastern Cape.
The National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) said on Monday it successfully obtained a Johannesburg high court interdict against Shane Cooper, Yusuf Ismail, the South African Debate Initiative, Titon Arc Rescue and Rehabilitation Centre, Loving Life Television, and the Pit Bull Special Victims Unit SA.
The Department of Agriculture, land reform & rural development has shaken off the responsibility of intervening as the number of pit bulls handed over to animal shelters continues to soar.
The Sizwe Kupelo Foundation will hand over a petition with more than 120,000 signatures calling for a ban on pit bulls to agriculture, land reform and rural development minister Thoko Didiza as soon as her department gives it a date.