My sister told me they had veldfire in or close to Walter Sisulu this morning hopefully everything was doused quickly, not too much damage.
Farmer may lose a lamb or two, weather also takes some when cold arrives at birthing time. Nature!
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Bad news, and yes, we can only pray that the fire was coped with. I will contact the in-laws to hear what's going on.
Yep, farming is not easy, as many losses. A farmer somewhere lost 19 cows, slaughtered by thieves overnight, and they reckon that it was meat for the zama zamas.
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Theft is rife throughout I feel for farmers as they fighting on all fronts of late.
Fire time of year, apparently no rain seen since April up on the West Rand where they waiting patiently for first falls to arrive.
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At times I wonder how many syndicates are active in South Africa, as it's not petty theft when 20 or 30 guys pop over a farm fence to raid the avo trees. Organized theft.
Warnings out but that is of little help, as too many people just do what they do with their braai habits. The rule is never to go to bed if a fire is still smoldering. But then again, arson also plays a role. Let's hope that they will get some rain soon.
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Gangs and syndicates are rife only way to resolve the problems is to face them head on now. Here on the Lesotho border they steal horses and walk them up regularly then our guys have to go up to retrieve them once found, ongoing over many years.
People living in the bush is where we have had many fires flare up of late. 2010 Ethekweni moved all the people off the streets bussed them here and some up North, covid this happened again, now 2024 they want to clean up the Durban's 'image' and bring them back down here.... Small towns cannot cope!
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Only way to stop this is to get the big wigs behind the crimes. The heads of the snakes need to be removed.
Always a big danger for fires by vagrants, and people being bussed to other provinces in order to get extra political votes has been going on for years. That and the unemployment problem is a real headache. I feel sorry for the small towns.
Snake pit does need a cleaning, when municipalities were local entities as we were here from Isipingo to Illovo Beach before Ethekweni arrived in town under ANC flag, people voted local folk to run the show.
Currently Ethekweni City Mayor controls all, it's a massive problem when you have no say.
Let's hope that the new GNU will start to sort things out, as the majority of municipalities are struggling through mismanagement. Some are now bankrupt, and others are also on the brink. But like always it is the poor that will continue to suffer.
Our election process is outdated, and there is now talk to revise and to change it, so that everyone can have more say.