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   colonel English residents of the Cape, the trek boers, the towns that   
   had been established and the roads that had been built. But the “native   
   tribes” had not changed from what they had been for thousands of years   
   in Africa. They had not moved forward at all.   
      
      
      
   COMMERCIAL FARMING AND PRIMITIVE SAVAGERY   
      
      
      
   Fast forward to the 21st century and commercial farming in South Africa.   
   Nowhere in the Western world do farmers experience the type of   
   malevolent antagonism displayed by the ANC government towards this   
   particular community. This is all the more bizarre because without this   
   community’s regular and dependable provision of food not only for the   
   ANC and its followers, but for the whole of South Africa, the ANC   
   government would have  fallen long ago.   
      
      
      
   Since taking power in 1994, the ANC has made it a policy to target   
   farmers, in many and varied ways. SA’s commercial agriculture industry   
   is one of the few sectors of the economy that is strong and self   
   sustaining, yet it endures official harassment, social hazards and in   
   many instances, a highly dangerous farming environment. These conditions   
   are not even imagined by farming counterparts in other countries. Apart   
   from the consequences of a mismanaged state resulting in power outages,   
   little or no service delivery from municipalities, a crumbling road   
   system, railways that are being stolen piece by piece or have   
   disappeared, an impotent police force, and stock, equipment and harvest   
   theft, farmers are confronted with primitive and barbaric behaviour not   
   seen in any other Western farming environment. It takes a special kind   
   of intestinal fortitude to farm in South Africa under these circumstances.   
      
      
      
   ILLEGAL HUNTING ON FARMS   
      
      
      
   In a recent press release, TLU SA’s general manager Bennie van Zyl   
   decried the growing phenomenon of illegal dog hunting on private farms   
   that is “spiralling out of control”. This criminal practice is exposing   
   a serious failure of law enforcement, despite the existence of   
   legislation and guidelines that can hold offenders accountable.   
      
      
      
   Criminal elements enter private farms without permission and bring their   
   dogs to hunt the farmer’s game and/or livestock. Property owners who   
   protest are threatened with their lives and the lives of their families.   
   The police are nowhere to be seen and in some instances, are part and   
   parcel of the illegal activity . Money changes hands as the dog owners   
   bet among themselves how many animals can be killed by which dog. The   
   traumatised game and livestock don’t stand a chance against this onslaught.   
      
      
      
   Some of the criminal hunt gangs stay overnight, using the farmer’s   
   water, electricity and other facilities. They fish and hunt illegally,   
   stealing livestock and harvests and breaking into farm workers’ houses.   
      
      
      
   Poaching on private game farms is relentless. The illegal wildlife trade   
   is having a field day in South Africa: recently 48 vultures were found   
   almost dead after eating a poisoned carcass. They were saved at the last   
   minute by the usual crowd of concerned citizens who take it upon   
   themselves to try and protect this country’s wildlife. Killing vultures   
   (and indeed other animals) for “belief use”(the new term for traditional   
   African medicine involving animal parts) are very much part and parcel   
   of daily life in today’s South Africa.   
      
      
      
   This behaviour affects many communities, especially farmers who live   
   cheek by jowl with these practices.   
      
      
      
   Recently almost 250 African traditional healers and occult practitioners   
   told an pollster that animal body parts are used, inter alia, to appease   
   the ancestors, cure illnesses and to even win the lottery! This and the   
   hunting, killing and poaching on private farms, the cruel mutilation of   
   living cattle in the fields by thieves, causes deep trauma to many South   
   Africans. Imagine this sort of thing happening to French or German   
   farmers. If by some stretch of the imagination it did happen, it would   
   be nipped in the bud by governments who cared about the producers of   
   food for their countries. Not so in South Africa. The president couldn’t   
   care less. He doesn’t even acknowledge these horrors, let alone take   
   action or call for their cessation. Indeed, nothing much has changed in   
   attitude and behaviour since 1835, right up to presidential level.   
      
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