Calls to remove the controversial pit bulls as domestic pets from households have been reignited.
This after 28-year-old Nomathemba Kweleta was mauled to death by four pit bulls in Namibia in Bloemfontein on Monday.
Shattered and struggling to digest the gruesome attack, 20-year-old Sisonke Nayinayi is the only family member who got to the scene just after the incident occurred. “I rushed to the scene, the police were present and I alerted them that I was the victim’s cousin, I had to explain to the officers how I heard of the incident, thus they granted me access to the crime scene to make a positive identification. I asked the officers if she was still alive and they could not positively confirm. It’s really hard especially when it’s at night because everything comes back…so I went there when I arrived.
“We don’t want to see another family feeling what we are feeling, imagine four dogs on top of you. It’s something else, to take final breath knowing that these cruel things are here I can just imagine. I don’t even want to talk about it because I don’t sleep and apart from anything that video causes reflections in my head. What I can say in closure is that please the government really must stand on this one,” says Sibongile Kweleta-Mkaliphi.
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