SHEEP RUSTLERS

BY RICHARD HURST
SOUTH Africa's Eastern Cape sheep farmers are coming under increasing threat from stock theft, with the resulting financial losses hitting the industry. The theft and slaughter of the sheep has started to drive farmers in the region away from sheep to cattle. Livestock producers in the area estimate that over the last decade the sheep population of the district has shrunk by 50,000.



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