The Chronicle

BULAWAYO, Thursday, March 11, 1993 — The lion lady of Hillside, Mrs Shirley Kendrick has been fined $100 under the National Parks and Wildlife Act, which forbids individuals to keep dangerous or problem wild animals in urban areas.

According to an official of the investigation branch of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife in Bulawayo, who declined to be named, Mrs Kendrick did not possess a permit to keep the cub as she had claimed, and was given up to 4PM yesterday to have the animal removed from her Hillside home.

The Parks official said they had wanted to take the cub to Chipangali but Mrs Kendrick had opted to take it back to Chinhoyi where she got it in the first place.

When a Chronicle crew visited her home last night, Mrs Kendrick was reported by a worker to be away from home and the cub to be “not in the yard”.

Another Parks official had on Tuesday said it was the duty of the municipality to deal with the issue of the cub, saying his department had nothing to do with the cub as it was not a protected species.

However, an investigations branch official said his colleague was misinformed and that Mrs Kendrick had been fined under Statutory Instrument 362 of 1990, Section 106,which states: “No person shall possess any dangerous or problem animal or primate on urban land”.