Animal cruelty
NSPCA: Intake of animals during lockdown continues to increase
The animal welfare organisation relies on donations and the latest developments have put further strain on its resources.
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'Match made in heaven': Abused pitbull Cooper gets adopted
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.
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Rescued pitbull who had ears cut off looking for new, forever home
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.
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‘There can be no excuse for this’: Pitbull rescued after ears cut off
Cooper, as the dog is known, was admitted to the Animal Welfare Society by his owner on 20 January.
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NSPCA lays criminal complaint against NW game farm
It said 51 tigers and 13 lions were found on the premises in Klerksdorp to be living in severe conditions.
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Man handed 8 months in jail for abuse, cruel treatment of 32 dogs
The NSPCA found the animals in a dire condition at a farm owned by Pieter Steyn in Protea Glen in January 2017.
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National Assembly Speaker Modise to stand trial for animal cruelty
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.
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AfriForum: Modise can't use connections to duck animal cruelty charges
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.
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Animal abuse case against Thandi Modise postponed to October
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.
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SPCA concerned with recent rise in dog attacks
This came as a 50-year-old woman recovers from severe dog bites sustained while protecting a woman pushing twins in a pram.
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Thandi Modise's animal cruelty case postponed to July
Modise failed to make an appearance at the Potchefstroom court in the North West on Friday.
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Dame Judi Dench slams 'cruel' dog meat festival
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.
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[WATCH] SPCA removes goat, sheep from parking lot
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.
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SPCA remove animals from shopping centre parking lot
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.
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NSPCA investigates animal cruelty case in De Wildt
In addition to the four cattle that were found, two cattle were seen sitting up, unable to move afetr the tendons behind their hind legs has been hacked
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SPCA grateful to AfriForum for going after Thandi Modise
The animal rights group and AfriForum announced on Thursday they would prosecute the NCOP chair on charges of animal cruelty.
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[LISTEN] Gerrie Nel explains AfriForum move to prosecute Thandi Modise
In 2014, SPCA inspectors found dozens of dead and starving animals at Modise’s North West farm and had to put down more than 160 of those animals.
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AfriForum confident of animal cruelty case against Modise
In 2014, inspectors found dozens of animals at Thandi Modise's farm had starved to death while others were living in horrendous conditions which led to over 160 of them being put down.
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AfriForum to privately prosecute Thandi Modise for animal cruelty
The organisation's private prosecution unit has announced that it will privately prosecute Thandi Modise, the chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), in relation to animal cruelty.
