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EWN reports that trade union federation Cosatu said that it supported the petition to ban pit bull terriers after a three-year-old was mauled to death in the Free State.
The child was attacked by two pit bulls while he was playing outside with his friends at the weekend. Cosatu’s national spokesperson, Sizwe Pamla, said that this breed of canine should not be kept as a pet and that SA should ban them as pets, just as other countries had done. He noted that a number of lives had been lost in recent months after attacks by pit bulls and said that the government must take immediate action. "This issue is becoming problematic, especially because domestic workers and other workers are the ones who are most exposed to these dogs," Pamla pointed out. A six-year-old girl was mauled to death by a pit bull earlier this year in Atteridgeville and another three-year-old boy suffered the same fate in the Free State earlier this month. In Cape Town, a 13-year-old is recovering in hospital after being attacked by a pit bull over a week ago.
- Read the original of the report in the above regard by Alpha Ramushwana at EWN
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