Animal cruelty
NSPCA lauds 8-year sentence handed to man for bestiality
This comes after a Soweto man was found guilty of bestiality and sentenced to eight years direct imprisonment.
Kurt Zouma was charged by the RSPCA after social media footage emerged last month showing the centre-back kicking and slapping the cat.
Lobby group AfriForum privately prosecuted National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise on behalf of the NSPCA - after carcasses of sheep, ducks and 50 pigs were found on her Modderfontein farm in the North West in 2014.
In 2014, carcasses were found on Modise's farm where it appeared animals were left unattended without food or water for about two weeks.
NSPCA is opposed to the live export of livestock via sea, claiming high summer temperatures around the Equator ‘cook’ and kill the animals.
The animal welfare organisation relies on donations and the latest developments have put further strain on its resources.
The one-year-old dog was tortured and disfigured a month ago when his ears were hacked off and sewn back on in Mitchells Plain.
One-year-old Cooper was admitted to the Animal Welfare Society last month after two teenagers allegedly cut off his ears with scissors before sewing them back on.
Cooper, as the dog is known, was admitted to the Animal Welfare Society by his owner on 20 January.
It said 51 tigers and 13 lions were found on the premises in Klerksdorp to be living in severe conditions.
The NSPCA found the animals in a dire condition at a farm owned by Pieter Steyn in Protea Glen in January 2017.
Lobby group AfriForum wants her to answer for allegedly neglecting her North West farm in 2014 which resulted in the deaths of more than 50 pigs and other animals.
Speaker Thandi Modise faces charges of animal cruelty after she was accused of leaving her North West farm unattended, causing the death of more than 50 pigs and other animals, five years ago.
Speaker of Parliament Thandi Modise faces charges of animal cruelty after she was accused of leaving her North West farm unattended causing the death of more than 50 pigs and other animals, five years ago.
This came as a 50-year-old woman recovers from severe dog bites sustained while protecting a woman pushing twins in a pram.
Modise failed to make an appearance at the Potchefstroom court in the North West on Friday.
The 'Skyfall' actress has lent her support to a petition which was calling for an end to the event - which was started in 2009 to boost flagging sales of dog meat.
Concerned community members contacted the Roodepoort SPCA when a goat and a sheep were found tied to a tree in the parking lot of a local shopping centre.
Community groups on social media lit up on Friday morning when a goat and a sheep were found tied up to a tree in the parking lot of the Devon Valley Shopping Centre in Weltevreden Park, Johannesburg.