Pregnant goat saved from rocky cliff
A construction company and the Kloof and Highway SPCA join forces to save a pregnant goat from a high ledge.
A 40-MINUTE long rescue ensued on Monday, 12 January when construction staff and Kloof and Highway SPCA inspectors took on the daring rescue of a heavily pregnant goat in KwaDabeka.
The SPCA’s Barbara Laubscher said the inspectorate controller received a phone call from Peter Jerome of Royal Haskoning DHV (a design, engineering and project management company working with Group Five on the construction) at about 2.30pm on the day.
Jerome said a heavily pregnant goat had been stuck on a concrete structure the whole day: “The structure is at least 10 meters high and they requested assistance in getting the goat down. Inspectorate staff, Sydney Nkomo and Pam Zondi, attended to the call,” she said.
When they arrived at the scene, they discovered the only way they could rescue the goat was to be taken up in an excavator bucket.
“Sydney and two construction staff were fitted with safety harnesses and taken up in the excavator bucket. It took about 40 minutes from arrival to rescue the goat and release it back to the herd that was grazing nearby.
“It is suspected that the goat climbed down the embankment structure and was then unable to get back,” Laubscher said.
She thanked Jerome and the Group Five staff for their assistance and concern.
