“Animal protection safeguards the moral status of humans and the degeneration of human values.” Those are the words of Constitutional Court Judge Sisi Khampepe, on behalf of a full bench of Constitutional Court judges, in a judgment handed down in December 2016. The judgement gave the NSPCA the power to privately prosecute those guilty of cruelty to animals, after the NPA refused to investigate a case involving the religious slaughter of camels in 2010. There
