AGRICULTURE NEWS - Farmers speaking to politicians about stock theft, rather than reporting it to the South African Police Service (SAPS), is not helping the fight against rural crime.
This was according to Willie Clack, chairperson of the National Stock Theft Prevention Forum, who was responding to calls for stronger action against stock thieves.
Werner Weber, provincial leader of the Freedom Front Plus in Mpumalanga and a farmer near Piet Retief, told Farmer’s Weekly that stock theft was out of control in the area between Belfast and Carolina.
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