AFRICAN DROUGHT TRAGEDY.
PENNILESS EAPMEPS IN HAPPEN WASTES. The drought in the farming districts of South Africa lias created so much havoc that its effects have become a national tragedy. It has stretched over a period of 18 months, and farmers who before its advent possessed thousands of cattle are now penniless. Fertile hind's have become barren wastes. The land becomes drier am! drier up country and the stock more scanty, especially in the neighborhood of Prince Albert and Beaufort West, Abe idee n, Willow more, St ey t Io, and parts of Eiteimage provide heartrending sighst. Farmers who before the drought were wealthy are now leaving the land for the diamond diggings. An official who has made a tour of the afflicted districts said: “Stock is dying in thousands. On number of farms I saw carcasses heaped up in stacks. Tne impoverished farmer intended selling the bones in order to provide food for his family. This is the first occasion within knowledge that stock has been dying continuously for 12 months.”
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Dunstan Times, Issue 3383, 18 July 1927, Page 8
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