Drought-hit farmers now have to contend with locusts

A  brown locust outbreak has hit the previously drought-ravaged Sarah Baartman and  Chris Hani districts, affecting about 127 farms.

That was the word from officials at the provincial department of rural development and agrarian reform  on Monday...

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