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For more than 30 years, Cora Bailey has dedicated her life’s work to helping poverty-stricken people and their pets in the west of Joburg. (Photos: Delwyn Verasamy, M&G)
ANIMAL WELFARE

Cora Bailey: A hero helping people and pets on the West Rand

For more than 30 years, Cora Bailey has dedicated her life’s work to helping poverty-stricken people and their pets in the west of Joburg

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
Speaker of the National Assembly, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. (Photo by Jaco Marais/Die Burger/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
BESTIALITY

Parliamentary legal opinion urges steps on MPs, former minister named in Zondo report

Senior MP Cedric Frolick should face an inquiry by the ethics committee while Gwede Mantashe and Nomvula Mokhonyane could face criminal sanction

  • Emsie Ferreira
4 min read
The SPCA and NGO Claw fought to have the case involving the sexual assault of a puppy case heard. (Getty)
BESTIALITY

Inside the 18-month investigation into Roodepoort man’s rape of family dog

Perpetrator jailed for eight years after he sexually assaulted his neighbour’s puppy

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read
26 January 2022. Tsediso Raleholi shows a photograph of her 10-year old daughter Mapula. Mapula drowned in a mine dam on Durban Deep over the Christmas holidays. (James Puttick)
AMATSHE MINING

‘My child would still be alive’ if that dam at the mine wasn’t there

The drowning of 10-year-old Mapula Raleholi is the latest in a series at mining sites in Gauteng

  • Sheree Bega
9 min read
A puppy up for adoption from the Claw animal shelter. (From Claw Facebook page)
ANIMAL RIGHTS

W Rand animal shelter threatened by protests

The Claw animal shelter has been struggling to survive after a week without water and service delivery protests that threaten its offices.

  • Sipho Kings
3 min read