Two Kleinskool herdsmen who cruelly tortured and killed a female crossbred dog in front of residents escaped a jail term on Monday despite desperate calls from the Animal Anti-Cruelty League (AACL) for them to be imprisoned.

Earlier, a vet had testified to the severity of Meisie’s injuries when she was beaten with a garden hoe and her body hung  from a pole — reportedly because she had killed livestock...