KwaZulu-Natal Premier Senzo Mchunu has called for the SA Human Rights Commission to investigate an attack on a six-year-old boy by a baboon on a Pietermaritzburg farm. The office of the premier said the farm owner ignored a warning by Seluleko Xaba's parents that a troop of baboons was roaming the farm and chasing children living on the premises."A team of health professionals has been assigned to [give] healthcare to Seluleko, who is in a critical but stable condition at Edendale Hospital. He was admitted with deep lacerations on the back and a thigh."He has been sent to operating theatre for closure of the wounds. He is on strong pain control and intravenous antibiotics. He has also been given rabies vaccine," Mchunu said.He said the "untold sufferings" of families living on farms in Richmond were uncovered after the attack."Families have complained bitterly for years that they have been fending off attacks by baboons owned by the owner of the farm."For years family crops have been destroyed by these baboons, exposing the families to abject poverty."Sadly, repeated pleas to the farm owner have been ignored. It is for this reason that I have assigned officials attached to the human rights unit and the office of the status of women and children to liaise with the SA Human Rights Commission."We want an urgent investigation into the violation of human rights of many families living on this farm."The premier also wants the provincial land claims commissioner to update him on the progress of a land claim lodged by families living on the farm."An integrated approach has been adopted to ensure we save the life of this child and provide counselling to the traumatised children living on the farm," he said...