Heated row erupts in DA – over cruelty to a dog

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A WAR of words has erupted between a former Cape Town DA leader and one of the party’s MPs over a councillor who starved her pet dog to near death.





Nikki Botha, a former DA constituency secretary in Cape Town’s Gardens suburb, warned that the DA risked losing the votes of animal lovers over its refusal to expel councillor Caroline Wood.


Wood, the DA councillor for Greyton-Genadendal, about 200km from Cape Town, was last year reported to have chained her dog – Lady – and left it without food and water for a few days.

The chain the dog was tied up with was too short for her to reach her puppies, some of whom starved to death.


The Karoo Animal Protection Society told the media that Lady’s “skeletal condition” showed that she had “suffered continuous neglect for a very long time, possibly her whole life”. Wood is now facing criminal charges.

A leaked document from the DA’s disciplinary committee shows that the party did not charge Wood with animal cruelty but with “bringing the party into disrepute”.


The DA’s deputy national police spokesperson, MP Debbie Schafer, chaired the hearing and found that Wood had “not acted deliberately” in mistreating the dog.


Schafer sentenced Wood to eight hours a month community service for a year, saying that Wood was “in every other respect an excellent councillor”.


“Eight hours a month for a year is a lot of time to be spent by a very busy councillor doing something she is not doing by choice,” Schafer wrote.


A furious Botha quit the DA, telling Schafer: “I’m gobsmacked that you still think this woman is a good councillor. This good councillor apparently needs to be taught not to allow a dog to starve to death.”
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If she can even look after her pets, how will she be able to meet the needs of complicated human beings?
 
i would have quit too! i HATE animal abusers
 
Good on Nikki Botha. Seems like a person of integrity.
 
Randhir said:
Good on Nikki Botha. Seems like a person of integrity.
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found that Wood had “not acted deliberately” in mistreating the dog.
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Really? Not according to the Karoo Animal Protection Society
Lady’s “skeletal condition” showed that she had “suffered continuous neglect for a very long time, possibly her whole life”.
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chrissy said:
Who are you on about?
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he's making refference (sp) to the guy who killed his husky...after paying a fine or something the guy was in an accident and died a horrific death iirc
 
karma can be awesome sometimes :) other times it can really bite you in the @$$
 
I think Ms Woods should move over to the ANC. She'd fit in well there
 
This is sick, how can a person do that, if she can't take care of an dog what about humans? Nah she should quit...
 
I say chain her, starve her, whip her and throw her in a deep dark dungeon.....I will build one even.....animal abusers are just hated.
 
Alan said:
I think Ms Woods should move over to the ANC. She'd fit in well there
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...and so should Debbie Schafer and everyone in the DA who concluded that that Ms Woods was an "excellent councilor".
 
I wanted to comment on the DA website forum but.....

Forum closed for festive season

The DA Staff will be out of office for the festive season for a much deserved break. As a result we will be shutting the Forum down over this period. Thank you for all the support and input over 2009 and wish you and your family a festive season and New Year. All email queries via [email protected] will only be responded to from the 11th January 2010.
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Chain her to a post, just out of arms reach of food and water for a few days so she know how it feels. Then force her to watch videos of animal cruelty while force feeding her meat.
 
How do people who quite clearly mentally handicapped always come into power?
 
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