News24 reports the Cape of Good Hope Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) has been forced to withdraw its mobile clinic services from Khayelitsha, Cape Town, following an attempted hijacking of one of its staff members on Thursday.
The staff member was driving sterilised animals back to their homes in the community when, in Section Site B, two armed men ambushed him. One of the gunmen stood in front of the vehicle while the other was at the window. “I’m the breadwinner at home. My immediate concern was what will happen to my family if I am not here anymore? And what will happen to the animals in my van? Then I drove for my life – and theirs. I am thankful to God that I was able to get away,” the staffer indicated. The attack followed an earlier attempted hijacking of the same van in the same area just two days prior. The SPCA’s Belinda Abraham said while the staff member escaped physically unharmed, the trauma of such an attack had left the mobile clinic team visibly shaken. The SPCA’s commitment to animal welfare in the area will, for the immediate future, be limited to inspectorate services only.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Noxolo Sibiya at News24 (subscription / trial registration required)
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