A farmer from Kathu in the Northern Cape who lost 1,200ha of grazing land in the runaway veld fires which ravaged the region this month believes efforts by farmers and non-profit organisations working with authorities helped minimise the damage.
As politicians, parliamentarians and policymakers remain schtum, it’s ordinary people who continue to step up to do what they must, determined to keep going.
South Africans are making lives for themselves to the best of their ability even if that’s leveraging a R350 grant to make it stretch further than the most flexible piece of Lycra. South Africans are making lives for themselves to the best of their ability even if that’s leveraging.