In the Khayelitsha suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, Manono Makhaphela, the principal of Luhlaza Secondary School, determined that a helpless tiny dog with paralyzed legs should be buried alive since, in his opinion, she was a major “nuisance.”
Makhaphela felt the need to instruct her janitors to get rid of this alleged problem in the worst way possible since Lily was barking for food in the playground.
Luckily, one of the cleaners, Bukelwa Mbulawa, made the decision to inform the Mdzanada Animal Clinic of what had occurred, saving her life. A week after the incident, on October 20, 2011, this woman was dismissed.
Rescuers had to travel nearly 20 minutes to find Lily, who was buried on the school’s tennis grounds about 1.5 meters away. She was taken to a veterinary facility, where they were able to determine that the spinal cord damage she had previously had was what had caused the paralysis of her rear legs. Fortunately, she did not get any significant wounds as a result of what had transpired.
Makhaphela was brought before the Khayelitsha Magistrates Court by the National Tax Authority, and Jane Levinson, the clinic’s project manager, gave evidence against him.