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August 21, 2009 Edition 1
JOHANNESBURG: A North West farmer embroiled in a
chick-killing saga intends claiming more than R50 million in damages from TV programme Carte Blanche, according to Sunday’s Rapport newspaper.
The claim would be served on Carte Blanche in the coming week, Jan Serfontein’s lawyer, George Gibbens, was quoted as saying. The amount was for damage to the farm as well as Serfontein’s reputation.
They would argue that the producers of the programme
did not verify the facts and did not consider that Serfontein’s farm, Boskop Layer Chickens, outside Potchefstroom, was a private enterprise. Serfontein, a former North West agriculture MEC, allegedly dumped day-old male chicks in an empty farm dam to starve to
death, instead of gassing them or feeding them into a grinder.
Gibbens said Carte Blanche should have treated video footage supplied by a former farm employee, who allegedly had a grievance against Serfontein, with more scepticism. – Sapa
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