RAIN BRINGS HOPE… AND DISEASE
It’s just a reality of communal livestock farming that sheep and goats have to be kraaled at night. Leave any animal out on the veld, and the chance is good that it will be gone by morning. There are simply too many dogs and stock thieves around. But while keeping animals on kraal might protect them from certain dangers, standing in a kraal night after night in wet weather brings other dangers, like disease, which can cause just as much damage as any dog or thief. There are three diseases in particular that village farmers like Wandile Khave need to
