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In South Africa 218,000 farm animals—cows, sheep or goats—were stolen last year.
Ricci.Wright
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#CrimeStats | Stock theft 'serious', with 26,000 sheep stolen in 3 months (timeslive.co.za)
Farming is hard enough without people stealing all your live stock. Sounds like they could use Tom Horn over there.
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My first thought is that this is because of hunger issues not money issues. If you and yours were hungry that goat/sheep would sure be tempting. Way more than a steer. What do you do with all that extra meat on a steer compared to the amount of meat on a goat/sheep.
Probably to assuage their cravings brought on by YouTube how to cook your steak videos. See what you started!😁 Bob
Did they open up any new Wendy's ?
They are mostly being stolen and sold.
And we think we have problems ........................ sigh ............
Afrika scares me.........
By chance, did they defund their police?
No but I think they get paid in sheep.
All over Africa there is animal theft. Cows, Sheep and goat are an africans bank account. Cows are like a savings account and sheep and goats are a checking account.
When I was in Kenya I read the local paper every morning and there were always articles about some guy stealing a cow or other animals. If the loaclas got to the thief before the cops the thief was almost always either hanged or set on fire, sometimes both.
One cool thing they have in Africa is a thing called Impasea(sp). You can put money on your cell phone and transfer it to another cell phone. I went and bought a goat for my soldiers to BBQ, I paid the guy with money on my cell phone. He put the goat in my truck and I delivered her to my guys to cook.
The goat was awesome.
So, now do you understand why all those farm pickups in America have a rifle in the back window?
Yes sir. Got to keep all varmints from getting to your herd. Doesn't matter how many legs said varmint has either.
I know of three farmers who immigrated to my part of N.C from South Africa. They all said crime and the upcoming “redistribution “ of farm land caused them to get out while the getting was good