THE Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in the Oshana region on Friday approached the High Court to get a court order against the Ondangwa Town Council to release impounded livestock that the latter had been keeping in a kraal without food or water for weeks.
The SPCA, through their lawyer Wilmarie Horn, had given the town council until 16h00 yesterday to locate the rightful owners of the livestock, and to release the animals to them in accordance with the Animal Protection Act, Act 71 of 1962, and the impound regulation No. 191 of 1994.
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