Posts tagged with 'North West'

 

Livestock actions banned in Gauteng, Mpumalanga and Limpopo following outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease – consumers can prepare themselves for some hefty price increases for meat products

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TAU SA is shocked after the announcement that livestock auctions in Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Gauteng and North West have been suspended until further notification by the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development. This announcement follows after the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the Molemole district of Limpopo.

“This is a big blow to the livestock and game farmers in the country, who are already being forced to their knees by the drought,” says Mr. Henk van de Graaf, the regional chairman of TAU SA Norht. “The sale of herds was the only remaining solution for farmers who no longer have food for their animals and now this way of escape is also removed.”

TAU SA realizes that serious action must now be taken to prevent the highly contagious disease but they do not believe that suspending auctions will solve the problem. Rather, the government must ensure that the measures originally put in place must be strictly adhered to an
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Hacking gang brutally chopped R1 mil Boran stud bull to death and carried his meat away

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Mr Million, a stud bull for which his owner paid R1 000 000, had to be put to death after savage cattle meat raiders – you can imagine from which race – struck at a farm outside Brits in North West last Friday night.

It was a typical hacking gang that slash the cattle to death with machetes and then chop up the meat on the spot to carry it away. The hacking gangs that struck regularly on South African farms first slash off the hind leg tendons of the cattle so that they can’t run before hacking the cattle into pieces whilst they are still alive. The night guard arrived on the scene just after the hacking gang started to hack Mr Million. His hind tendons had by then already been hacked off and he already had deep slashes over his head and back. The hacking gang had by then chopped up several cows and fled with the meat.

The owner of the farm, Mr Ockert Werner, says he lost 4 cattle in this way this month alone. Mr Werner bought Mr Mill
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AfriForum wins De Wildt land grab court case with Malema’s money

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AfriForum was victorious in the Northern Gauteng High Court on 21 january 2019, against illegal land invaders and the South African Police Service (SAPS).

The victory follows an urgent application to force the SAPS to remove land invaders who illegally occupied land in the De Wildt area in the North West. The legal cost for the application is paid from funds that were paid to AfriForum by Julius Malema and the EFF after they had lost numerous cases to AfriForum with cost.

One of these cases incidentally involved Malema’s public incitement to occupy land illegally.

“Apart from the irony that it is Malema who is, so to speak, now paying to bring land invaders to book, this is another victory for AfriForum in its battle to protect property rights in South Africa and to force the SAPS to assist the rightful landowners in protecting their properties,” says Ian Cameron, AfriForum’s Head of Community Safety.

“AfriForum has been working
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Rioters chase doctors away from dying patients at Tshepong hospital

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Critically ill patients lay unattended as “tsotsis” denied staff access to Tshepong hospital outside Klerksdorp in the North West on Wednesday and asked doctors to pay R20 to enter their workplace.

Desperate doctors and nurses were eventually flown in by helicopter. But strikers then entered the hospital and forced the nurses to go outside, while overturning rubbish bins. Patients ended up serving patients.

One man, with a gunshot wound to the neck, died. It is not known if he would have survived had he been seen earlier, said doctors at the hospital.

“This is probably the only functional hospital in the province. I don’t see how they can cripple this hospital too,” said one doctor, who did not want to be named.

A surgeon trying to get to work was stormed by thugs wielding bricks. He struggled to get his car keys out of his pocket but managed to drive off just in time.

Doctors say the hospital, with more than 450 beds, is one of the “most fu
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