While the entire world view dolphins doing tricks and jumping through hoops while in captivity as abhorrent, there was still one spot on the globe where the ANC rulers thought it was still cool. The ANC and its puppet, Danny Jordaan, wanted to invest millions to keep mammals in captivity for the pleasure op tourists. Only a couple of week ago, Danny Boy (yes, brought to you by Jacob Zuma) Jordaan’s Nelson Mandela Bay was planning to bring captive dolphins back to Bayworld, the oceanarium complex let to fall into disrepair by the ANC government (see image above).
Flanked by Jordaan, the Eastern Cape’s Member of the Executive Council (MEC) Pemmy Majodina told journalist in the city “once we are ready, the dolphins must come back. Bayworld is characterised by these dolphins; they must be named with African names … this institution must be reshaped”.
The MEC was adamant that dolphins would come back to Port Elizabeth and “multiply in numbers”.
Once a buzzing complex that drew hundreds of thousands of visitors a year, Bayworld finally dropped to junk status in 2009 when the centre’s last dolphins, Domino and Dumisa, were relocated to Ocean Park in Hong Kong as part of a breeding loan (we are relatively sure they were sold as a special on ‘dolphin and chips’ shortly afterwards -Ed.)
Yet, despite our predictions, Port Elizabeth museum education and training manager Sylvia Van Zyl told The Herald newspaper that Domino and Dumisa was in fact at Ocean Park in Hong Kong, but it was unlikely they would ever return to the oceanarium (hugs).
“Our animals are being accommodated by Ocean Park, which has amazing facilities and probably the best veterinary care in the world. Domino, the male, has been used with one of their females and a calf has since been born, Angelo. Dumisa has gone into a female group and this is how dolphins in the wild would actually organise themselves … she is now being schooled for her own calf.”
