A Fish Hoek man has been found guilty of animal neglect by the Simon’s Town Magistrate’s Court.
According to the charge sheet, Johannes Schreuder was fined R5 000 or six months imprisonment of which R2 500 or three months imprisonment was suspended for a period of five years on condition that he is not convicted of contravening Section 2 of the Animals Protection Act during the period of suspension.
The sentence was handed down on Thursday August 17.
Criminal charges were brought against Mr Schreuder in September last year by the Cape of Good Hope SPCA following an investigation of alleged animal neglect in which the SPCA confiscated several animals from his house in February 2022 after obtaining a court order from Simon’s Town Magistrate’s Court.
At the time, SPCA chief inspector Jaco Pieterse said the animals at the “heavily cluttered property” were kept in “filthy, parasitic conditions” with no fresh water (“SPCA confiscates animals from hoarding house,” Echo February 22).
Mr Schreuder was arrested at his Nelson Road house on Wednesday September 7, and he made a brief appearance in the Simon’s Town Magistrate’s Court the following day where he was released on R500 bail, (“Fish Hoek man in court for alleged animal neglect,” Echo September 15, 2022).
