A march by animal activists will be held in Simonstown to highlight Cape Town's baboon problem

This comes there are fears the City of Cape Town is planning to euthanise a baboon troop due to their urbanisation and splintering troops.  

Samantha Hodgson, co-founder of Baboon Watch Western Cape said while they too would like to see the baboon in their natural habitat, killing the baboons is not a solution.

“We want the general public to know that A this is happening and B to approach the City, Cape Nature and SANParks and to say, stop the killing, let's sit down and talk about solutions so their solution right now is to actually kill," said Hodgson.

Educational Sociologist and Artist, Dr. Dylan McGarry has been instrumental in bringing to life the human coexistence with baboons, in a theatre production, called Unruly.

He has likened the current situation to the forced removals during apartheid  

“I think what we are trying to say in the play is that we don’t think that baboons are an ecological problem, try and step back a bit and look at in what ways is this an opportunity for us to think differently about how we live in the world with each other and in this time of climate crisis and ecological apartheid," said McGarry.

The Cape Peninsula Baboon Management Joint Task Team (CPBMJTT) which consists of the City of Cape Town, CapeNature, and SANParks says it has noted the planned march and will receive the organisers’ memorandum of concerns.