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Cape of Good Hope SPCA withdraws mobile clinic services
Cape Argus
|July 25, 2025
THE Cape of Good Hope SPCA has withdrawn its Mobile Clinic Services in Khayelitsha after two attempted armed robberies on their staff in just a matter of days.
In a harrowing incident, one of their mobile clinic operators shared how they managed to flee with their lives and saved four cats and 12 dogs, during a near hijacking incident.
The team's SPCA vehicle was targeted twice in the same community in Khayelitsha in just two days.
The operator, chose to remain anonymous due to safety concerns and described in horror how he faced two gun-wielding hijackers: “I drove for my life and theirs.
“I'm the breadwinner at home. My immediate concern was what will happen to my family if I am not here anymore and what will happen to the animals in my van.
“Then I drove for my life and theirs.
This story is from the July 25, 2025 edition of Cape Argus.
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