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Nazareth Appalsamy, the SPCA’s farm unit inspector, said the desperate chickens had started cannibalising each other, and it was the “worst example of cannibalism and cruelty” he had seen in his career.

Appalsamy and three colleagues worked from Wednesday last week until Saturday to put the creatures out of their misery.

The police had to be called in, because the project beneficiaries became violent when the SPCA started putting down the animals.  

Lungisiswe Mkwanazi, ANC councillor of the Mkhondo local authority, said on Sunday that the Siyaphambili upliftment project had been initiated by the Mpumalanga department of agriculture.  

Nhlanha Mavuso, the chairman of the Siyaphambili project, said that the project had been initiated for himself and eight other people.

Initially, Mavuso said, the government supplied the chickens and the food, and government and beneficiaries entered into an agreement with a local hospital to purchase the poultry.

The hospital bought chickens once, but did not place another order.  

The owners of the chickens ran out of money, and they could not buy chicken feed, Mavuso said.

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Apr 23, 2012

BaleliM

and why were the chickens not let out to gather food as nature intended?
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Apr 23, 2012

Bumboklaat

Classic example of another failed upliftment project. blame it on greed, maladministration, selfishness, disorganization.
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Apr 23, 2012

MsKinkyakaKamaSutra

OMG........... they became kaal neks ngenkani....... shame poor chickens

To the Project cordinators, if you did not have chicken feed even breadcrumb would have sufficed. To take failure to the next level
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Apr 23, 2012

Besemryer

I am astounded!!! they should have let them out to gather food or sell them when the going got tough! At least someone could have been fed, or else some food could have been bought to feed ANY of the surviving chickens!
Pondering on why the hospital never placed another order???
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Apr 23, 2012

CheeseBoy

govt gives you this project on a platter for next to nothing. yet you still manage to stuff it up. what more do you want govt to do. really
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Apr 23, 2012

tumzangwana

The owners of the chickens ran out of money, and they could not bu.y chicken feed, Mavuso said.
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wena Mavuso and friends you are just useless, i wish that those chickens had eaten your sorry @ss instead of cannibalising each other.

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Apr 23, 2012

Shredder

Just let them out to get food for themselves. Agg, that's why Slikour said "... are fools". Nxa!!
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Apr 23, 2012

nofavours

why badlala ka seshebo.....? ba tshwarisa se shebo ka tlala....KFC must stand up for their rights
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Apr 23, 2012

CYBORICO

so let the cheacken run and eat all kinds of viral infected kak on the streets and then take those chickens and sell them to the public and hospital neh BaleliM? mass production requires certain standards to be met before your food can be sold to the general market(not black market)
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Apr 23, 2012

Sinudeity

Yeah. Farming is easy ne.
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