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The broken system behind our worst cattle epidemic (opens the original)
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Buffaloes are one of the main attractions in the Kruger National Park. They carry the foot and mouth disease virus but seldom get sick from it. Richard de Bufanos’s dairy farm is opposite Zonkizizwe township, south-east of Johannesburg. A state vet told him in May 2025 that the deadly foot and mouth disease (FMD) had been detected in the cattle of an informal farmer across the road. De Bufanos asked if the herd had been quarantined, as per regulations. No, because the state had no capacity to fe
Minister of Agriculture takes action against vaccine company boss (opens the original)
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South Africa is in the midst of its worst ever foot and mouth disease epidemic. The disease makes cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals sick. It does not cause illness in humans or household pets. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee Minister Willie Aucamp, who took over as Minister of Agriculture on 30 June, has confirmed that the acting CEO of Onderstepoort Biological Products (OBP), Dr Jacob Modumo, has been suspended by OBP’s board. “On Friday … I convened an urgent meeting with the board of OBP wherein
How foot and mouth disease ran amok (opens the original)
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Cows in a meadow on Mearns farm in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. All photos (except the trench with sick cows): Ihsaan Haffejee Workers dig a long, narrow trench. It is summer on Mearns dairy farm, just outside Mooi River in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands. It is hot and sticky. The men gently usher the cows, single-file, into the hole. Then they shoot and bury them. They believe this is the most humane way to cull these sick animals. Some of the men, experienced farmworkers familiar with animals dying
How much did judges really spend on their Durban conference? (opens the original)
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Some judges expressed alarm when they were provided plane ticket options for R8,500 and R9,195 for a Johannesburg–Durban roundtrip that normally costs about R3,000. Illustration: Lisa Nelson A return economy plane ticket at a cost of R8,501 between Johannesburg and Durban was quoted by TWF, the appointed travel agent of the Office of the Chief Justice (OCJ), for a judiciary conference. These tickets should normally cost about R3,000. Every few years, the Office of the Chief Justice hosts the con
Explainer: How “money mule” scams work (opens the original)
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South Africans probably lose hundreds of millions of rands annually to mule fraud. While the banks agree this kind of scam is growing, there is not yet a properly calculated estimate of the size of the problem. Graphic: Lisa Nelson Judith Hawarden must have been excited when she paid R5.5-million to ENS, the attorneys handling the sale of her new house. Unfortunately, she didn’t realise that the email she had received with the bank account details wasn’t from ENS but from a scammer. The email ad
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