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Dry run for disaster: Small-scale farmers battle for su...


Dry run for disaster: Small-scale farmers battle for survival in drought-crippled rural Eastern Cape
by Tembile Sgqolana, Daily Maverick
July 21, 2021
Dry run for disaster: Small-scale farmers battle for survival in drought-crippled rural Eastern Cape
by Tembile Sgqolana, Daily Maverick July 21, 2021
Xolisa Bomela is a small-scale sheep farmer in the deep rural Nteshe village of Nqamakhwe in Mnquma municipality in the Eastern Cape. He wakes up early every day to feed his livestock before releasing the animals on to the overgrazed land in his village.
Ten years of drought in parts of Amathole District Municipality (ADM) have cost Bomela R785,000. From 2010 until today, Bomela has lost R270,000 through the deaths of his cattle, sheep and goats, including calves, lambs and kids. He has spent R440,000 on feed and has lost R75,000 through theft of his cattle, sheep and wool. ....

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