Gweru City Council banned from killing stray animals

GWERU City council has been barred from killing stray domestic animals, among them donkeys which the authority was callously gunning down even in the presence of their owners. High Court judge Justice Benjamin Chikowero delivered the ruling in favour of the Zimbabwe National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The local authority had initiated a shoot to kill policy on the animals, despite having agreed in June last year to trap the animals instead of killing them. – NewZimbabwe