Journalist quizzed over report on NSPCA vs Thandi Modise animal abuse case

The role played by the DA in the case of alleged animal cruelty against National Assembly Speaker Thandi Modise came out as one of the witnesses took the stand at the Potchefstroom regional court.

Modise is facing six counts of contravening the Animals Protection Act, relating to allegedly abandoning and starving hundreds of her livestock at her Tlokwe farm until some of it died in 2014. Wetdewich said he realised that DA North West politician Chris Hattingh had been the one who tipped off the newspaper, even though he had no prior knowledge of him, and also indicated that the farm belonged to Modise, who is the former premier of the province.Wetdewich also told the court that, after meeting with Hattingh, he met with the NSPCA inspectors who visited the farm and who asked him to take certain photographs of emaciated and dead animals that had been used as evidence in court.

Wetdewich said: “I cannot speak for the DA or their motive. Obviously, you assume that there might have been a political intention but I am a journalist. You go there and you check”.

That doesn’t detract from the truth...the animals starved and died!!

It's a disgrace that this has taken 9 years to get to court

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