Rates increase among proposals to keep baboons out of Cape Town suburbs

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So, the memeQueen is back. We missed you.

 

[TheMightyQuinn]

So, the memeQueen is back. We missed you.

Still triggered or have you calmed down a bit?

 

[G'Wobblez]

Baboons are scary.
And If they came up with a humane solution I would not complain about the rate increase.
That said.. how to do it humanely is the question.

We are taking their habitat away so there is no question why they are a problem, lets not be the idiots that find a cruel solution

That said, I'm more scared of a baboon than a lion.

 

[RedViking]

Typical DA will use any excuse to introduce yet another permanent stealth tax without actually fixing the issue.

How must they fix the issue if the baboons don't want to leave?

 

[RedViking]

Anyone who have watched Planet of the Apes knows how this end.

One day they will come back for you and take their habitat back.

#TakeBackTheHabitat

 

[rietrot]

I've been following this issue for some time now out of interest as a Pretorian and I have posted links about this here in myBB recently.

The amounts spend by the CoCT seems to be just ridiculous, I think they spent over R70mill a year, this is a big problem, I really think that they needs to some culling here, thats just my two cents, they is no longer any natural predators and some human intervention is necessary. On the other hand I would think that a increase on rates is just not necessary +-R70 million per year for one project doesnt warrant a specific increase its just too small.

Simons Town Super Baboon troop - The Morning Review with Lester Kiewit

Abongile speaks to Jenni Trethowan Baboon Matters.

omny.fm

There's no way they really spend that.

 

[rietrot]

How must they fix the issue if the baboons don't want to leave?

They go where they get food.
Don't feed them when posible and just live with it.

Some greenie idiots probably put food out for them.

 

[Pegasus]

We need some of these.

Not possible.

We need to kill 50 - 100 leopards to make an outfit for the kings and cadres.

 

[rietrot]

A quick fix seems to be setting up feeding stations further and further away to lure them out of the suburbs. Don't know how feasible that is. Rather than just killing them. Or capture and release somewhere else. With 70 mil you can di both and have plenty of money left over.

 

[Pegasus]

I've been following this issue for some time now out of interest as a Pretorian and I have posted links about this here in myBB recently.

The amounts spend by the CoCT seems to be just ridiculous, I think they spent over R70mill a year, this is a big problem, I really think that they needs to some culling here, thats just my two cents, they is no longer any natural predators and some human intervention is necessary. On the other hand I would think that a increase on rates is just not necessary +-R70 million per year for one project doesnt warrant a specific increase its just too small.

Simons Town Super Baboon troop - The Morning Review with Lester Kiewit

Abongile speaks to Jenni Trethowan Baboon Matters.

omny.fm

For 70 million, you can put the baboons up in a hotel.

 

[Galactica]

Proudly brought to you by the DA: Water tank levy, broken grid levy, and now a baboon levy. Attach it to all our bills please, even if we don`t live in a problem area. We are proud socialists and enjoy handing over our money for a just socialist economy whatever the fvck that is.

They seem to have a lot in common to SA governments that had the Hut tax, Salt tax, Dog tax...

 

[access]

70 million seems like a lot for a baboon population that is supposedly in decline

 

[Thugscub]

Baboons are not an endangered species.
Humans are taking over their territory.
Maybe send a message to Putin to invade the Western Cape to get rid of the Nazi baboons.

 

[irBosOtter]

I'll take "care" of them for free. Not sure how the meat tastes though, but willing to find out

 

[noxibox]

Typical DA will use any excuse to introduce yet another permanent stealth tax without actually fixing the issue.

Sure, the baboons and DA probably planned the whole thing.

 

[Garson007]

Back when there was some common sense you'd just cull the herd once a wild animal became a problem.

Once again trying to find solutions to a problem that was already solved thousands of years ago.

 

[DreamKing]

DA wants to bring the apartheid back .......

 

[theratman]

None in Stellenbosch, Somerset West, Gordon's Bay, Durbanville or around Tygervalley area, not that I've seen. I've looked but nothing. Where are all these baboons?

There used to be quite a few on the outskirts of GB, close to the mountain. There are loads just around the bend towards Pringle. They're a big problem out that side.

 

[deweyzeph]

As someone who lives in an area of Cape Town with baboons around us I can categorically tell you that the problem is not the baboons. The problem is the idiots who buy properties in an area they know has baboons, then leave their garbage out the night before garbage day, don't use baboon-proof bins, and generally do everything they can to attract baboons. We don't have a baboon management problem, we have a people management problem.

 

[deweyzeph]

None in Stellenbosch, Somerset West, Gordon's Bay, Durbanville or around Tygervalley area, not that I've seen. I've looked but nothing. Where are all these baboons?

The main hotspots are in the south peninsula. Simons Town, Scarborough, Kommetjie, Fish Hoek, Glencairn, etc. There are also a few areas across the bay like Pringle Bay, Rooiels and Betty's Bay. There used to be baboons in Hout Bay as well, but the massive fires in 2000 pretty much pushed most of those baboons to Constantia and Tokai.