Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP team UK have been asked by anti-racing campaigners in South Africa to submit this appeal again, please see below, as we need to keep those emails flooding in to professor Snyman who is conducting research on behalf of the DTI about greyhound racing in South Africa, we must do all we can to protect the greyhounds from further abuse and death!!!
Please support this vital appeal
UPDATE ON ‘SAY NO TO GREYHOUND RACING IN SOUTH AFRICA’- PLEASE EVERYONE SUBMIT AGAIN YOUR POLITE PROTESTS TO Prof Snyman EMAIL- snyman.rd@ufs.ac.za
Please urge Prof Snyman to do all she can to prevent greyhound racing being introduced into South Africa.
It is imperative that all correspondence is kept polite please.
Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP team UK put out an alert last year about the possibility of the re-introduction of greyhound racing in South Africa.
Please send an email and photographic evidence to Prof Snyman (if you have any) of graphic cruelty to greyhounds as an example of what may happen to racing greyhounds in South Africa.
Please see the update below and take immediate action.
This must not be allowed to go ahead.
Please everyone send your email today, we all make the difference.
Many thanks
Greyhound Crusaders/SWAP team UK
“The future depends on what we do in the present”. – Mahatma Gandhi
South Africa – Greyhound racing to be legal soon?
http://www.sportingweb.co.za:80/sportingweb/view/sportingweb/en/page93?oid=12848&sn=Detail
Greyhound racing to be legal soon?
Press Release
28 January 2009
The Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) will conduct the second round of public consultations on the possible legalisation of greyhound racing in South Africa.
The consultations will be held in Gauteng, Free State, North West, Eastern Cape, Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal in February and March 2009.
Last year, the dti appointed the University of the Free State, Faculty of Law, under the supervision of Prof Elizabeth Snyman-Van Deventer to conduct a research study on the possible legislation of greyhound racing in the country. Interested members of the public and various associations submitted their inputs through emails and faxes.
“the dti has deemed it necessary to broaden the consultation process and hold public consultations in which members of the public and interested groupings can submit their input on the legalisation of greyhound racing prior to the finalisation of the research study,” said the Director of Regulated Industries Mpho Mosing in the dti.
The public consultations will take place as follows:
6 February 2009, 9h00-12h30, Protea Edward Hotel, Durban
13 February 2009, 9h00-12h30, Protea Seapoint Hotel, Cape Town
20 February 2009, 9h00-12h30, Protea Marine Hotel, Port Elizabeth
26 February 2009, 9h00-12h30, Garden Court Hotel, Bloemfontein
27 February 2009, 9h00-12h30, Protea Manor Hotel, Hatfield, Pretoria
6 March 2009, 9h00-12h30, Garden Court East London, Esplanade, East London
13 March 2009, 9h00-12h30, Willows Garden Hotel, Potchefstroom
For further information, contact Sidwell Medupe (012) 394 1650 / 073 5226801 or e-mail: MSmedupe@thedti.gov.za
*** Please Visit the Uk GreytExploitations web site at http://greytexploitations.com/how-you-can-help/greyhound-action for all the news and info about the suffering and abuses to racing greyhounds. – SAV ***
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