The Eastern Cape government has downplayed fears that thousands of sheep loaded onto the livestock carrier Al Messilah, destined for Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for slaughter, may be carrying an infectious disease after cases of ecthyma were detected at a feedlot where they were kept. This comes after the National Council of SPCAs (NSPCA) raised the alarm over the infectious disease.
Two white Bengal tigers, which were housed in a Boksburg suburb without a speck of grass or tree in sight, were relocated to an NSPCA-accredited wildlife facility in the Free State on Tuesday.
The National Council of SPCAs condemned a fundraising auction by an independent private school in the Northern Cape that offered a "lioness hunt" worth R40,000 as a prize.