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Early birds get bacon and egg breakfast Residents headed for the hills on Sunday morning (15 November) when they participated in the Constantia Glen 5km breakfast fun walk/run which winded its way from Constantia Glen’s tasting room through vineyards and up and down the rolling hills of the farm. All participants received a glass of Cap Classique and a coffee along with a breakfast of a scrambled egg croissant with bacon, salmon or avocado at the finish.
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Kataza’s move a concern NETTALIE VILJOEN NETTALIE.VILJOEN@MEDIA24.COM
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she said. According to Abraham, the SPCA’s intention was to send Kataza to a rehabilitation centre whereby he would have been rehabilitated and then released back into the wild. “Kataza has been raiding both occupied and unoccupied homes in the Tokai area on an almost daily basis. The SPCA is of the opinion that Kataza requires rehabilitation in order to prevent further risk of raiding behaviour,” she added. Abraham said returning Kataza to the Slangkop troop continued to present a risk of harm caused by human and wildlife conflict and should his raiding behaviour resume, Kataza would be potentially teaching others in the troop the same behaviour. “It remains to be seen what the City of Cape Town is going to do when Kataza continues with his raiding behaviour in Slangkop,” she added. The City has stated that, upon his release, Kataza’s previous raiding record would not be considered in future decisions. “This is in an effort to give him a fair chance to adjust to his natal home range,
namely the surrounding mountains in the Kommetjie area,” the media statement read. Preceding Kataza’s relocation to Tokai, an application to euthanise the baboon had already been made (by Human and Wildlife Solutions, the City’s then service provider) and rejected by the City’s baboon management programme (“Kommetjie baboon reprieved from sentence of ‘death’”, News24, 15 August). The City also requested that the public refrain from following Kataza to allow him space and time within his natal Slangkop troop home range. It encouraged the surrounding community to assist by baboon proofing their properties as far as possible, and to reduce food attractants “as this will discourage raiding”. The SPCA supports this call, urging residents to practice responsible waste management. “As opportunistic feeders, baboons will always choose the highest nutritional value obtainable with the least amount of effort,” Abraham said. V Call the 24/7 baboon hotline on 071 588 6540. To report concerns, email baboon@capetown.gov.za.
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hile many may be celebrating the return of the male chacma baboon called Kataza to his natal Slangkop troop in Kommetjie last week as a win for baboon rights, the Cape of Good Hope SPCA is not convinced that Kataza’s story will end in “and he lived happily ever after”. About ten weeks after the baboon was first relocated from Kommetjie to Tokai in an attempt to negate his alleged raiding behaviour, the City of Cape Town announced in a media statement that Kataza had been returned to his home on Thursday 12 November. “The return of SK11, colloquially referred to as Kataza, to his natal Slangkop troop home range followed after detailed monitoring of the situation by the City,” the City’s statement read. What it failed to mention is that the City’s decision also followed an outcry among ac-
tivists and residents (“Give Kataza a chance”, People’s Post, 8 September), the issue of an application for the review of the City’s decision to relocate Kataza in the Western Cape High Court on Friday 2 October by animal activist Ryno Engelbrecht, and the submission of an application to Cape Nature for the necessary permit to capture and relocate Kataza to the Riverside Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in Limpopo on Friday 23 October by the Cape of Good Hope SPCA. Following the City’s announcement on Saturday 7 November that Kataza would be returned to Kommetjie “as soon as practically possible”, Engelbrecht agreed to withdraw his application to the high court. Belinda Abraham, communications, resource development and education manager at the SPCA, told People’s Post that the SPCA had also withdrawn its application to Cape Nature. “The matter now lies with the City of Cape Town to decide on the way forward since Kataza will be taken back to his natal troop. The SPCA was not consulted on this translocation back to his natal troop,”
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