Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 37 No. 3. March 20, 1974
New apartheid ruling hits cats
New apartheid ruling hits cats
South Africa (ZNS) — The latest racist ruling to be handed down in South Africa affects only cats and dogs.
The South African government has announced that the nation's SPCA will not be permitted to board animals belonging to non-whites in their kennels. People who are classified by the government as either "coloured" or "black" are now being informed by the Cape Town SPCA that their pets are not welcome.
The SPCA added that while mongrels owned by whites were still welcome, even pedigree dogs and cats owned by non-whites have been judged "unfit".