Agri Eastern Cape said it was confident sheep on the Al Messilah stock carrier vessel that fell ill with the orf virus while on their way to the Middle East from East London would not suffer unduly.
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.
First came the stench. Then a burning in the eyes and nose the telltale sign of ammonia. Manure everywhere, in the feed troughs and water troughs, in a ship carrying 19,000 cattle.
The scenes aboard a live cattle export ship that ignited public outrage after docking in Cape Town were "abhorrent", says the National Council of SPCAs.
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.