AGRICULTURE NEWS - The South African Red Meat Producers’ Organisation (RPO) has welcomed Tuesday's (25 August) judgment by the Grahamstown High Court to permit the exporting of up to 56 000 live sheep in a single shipment by sea from the East London Harbour.
The sheep have been held for months at an Eastern Cape feedlot pending the outcome of the National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ (NSPCA) legal bid to achieve a permanent ban on livestock exports by sea from South Africa.
Judge AJ Dukada ruled against the NSPCA, and ordered Kuwait-headquartered company, Al Mawashi, and its fellow respondents cited by the NSPCA in the matter, to proceed with activities to export the sheep currently held at Castledale feedlot to the Middle East.
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