A march for animal rights

The march took place from Kay’s Interiors on March 21.
Entrants paid R10 or donated pet food to register and wore the orange ribbon against animal cruelty. Upon registration everyone was entered into a draw for R100 Pet and Pool vouchers.

Winners of the lucky draw were Natalie Daniel, Linda Neveling, Sanet McCullum, Michelle Williams, Coebie du Toit, A. Murdoch, L. Potgieter, C. Young, and Tarryn Freeme.

The winners of the raffle for the One Direction tickets and hampers were Charlene Barnes, Angela van der Schyff and Pat Barnes.
Witbank SPCA would like to thank the community of eMalahleni who came out either with or without dogs.
“Thank you for your efforts in making the public aware that animals have rights too,” said Lizelle Mitchell, Witbank SPCA chairlady.
Caron Andrews took a great imitative and collected close to R300 from passing motorists, well done Caron. Her last stop was Brazen Head and they kindly donated another R200 to the SPCA.

Thank you to Pet and Pool for making their premises available and for donating R1 000 worth of prizes as well as the charcoal for the day and supporting the drive full on.

The SPCA would also like to thank the Traffic Department for safely leading the march down Mandela Street.
To the staff of Witbank SPCA for coming out on their public holiday to take part – great teamwork.
To the committee of Witbank SPCA for filling in all the other areas of organisation, thanks to Mark Conway, Eric Conway, Martin Potgieter, Harold Hide, Oliver Nielsen and Tyler Carlitz.

Thank you to Witbank Hockey Club for acting as marshals and assisting in the march. To certain members of the Spartans Hockey Team of Witbank Hockey Club for assistance with setting up and selling of wors rolls.
Thanks to Des Conway for the behind the scenes organising at Witbank SPCA and to Kim Parsons for sponsoring the One Direction tickets to be raffled and another precious behind the scene member of Witbank SPCA.
Thank you all ‘from those that can not talk for themselves.

Altogether R3 351.10 was raised from the march and the sale of One Direction raffle tickets.