Daily Sun (August 6 2014) - The BOYS were alone at home and they had nothing to eat.
So they stabbed a dog to death, ripped out its liver, skinned it, hung the intestines on the fence and fried the liver in cooking oil!
THEN THEY SATISFIED THEIR HUNGER WITH A MEAL OF FRESHLY COOKED DOG MEAT.
The two boys, aged seven and eight, said they stabbed the animal in the stomach and when it was dead they used their hands and the knife to cut out the liver. Then they broke into the house to get some cooking oil and fried the liver. After eating the meal, they dug a hole to bury the dog.
On Monday the news reached their school in Bankhara-Bodulong Township, Kuruman, Northern Cape where the boys are in grade 2. Social workers visited the school yesterday and were locked in a meeting with their parents. The mother of one of the boys said she left the boys with a friend to attend a funeral. How the boys got back to the house she didn't know. Other sources said when the boy was left in the township with a friend, other boys related to the friend also arrived. The friend chased them away but the boy and his nephew left with the other kids. That is when they went home and killed the dog.
When Daily Sun caught up with the two pairs of neighbours, who are also relatives, they were screaming at each other over the fence. The owner of the dog, Mika Matau, said she had nothing to say because she feared being attacked by her neighbour, but she added that she was very unhappy.