Women living in Nyanisweni village in Qumbu in the Eastern Cape have become the target of ruthless stock theft and are living in fear that their kraals will be empty in the morning – their sheep, cattle, goats and horses all stolen
Women living in Nyanisweni village in Qumbu in the Eastern Cape have become the target of ruthless stock theft and are living in fear that their kraals will be empty in the morning
The emotional scars the victims are left with are too much to bear as the animals, which are worth thousands of rands, are often lost without a trace. “I was so traumatised. I had lost thousands of rands from those sheep. These animals are our livelihoods. We can sell them for R2 000 to R2 500 each. So imagine how much money you lose if you have 83 sheep stolen in just one night. Not to mention the fact that several of them were pregnant at the time they were stolen. We expected to get 40 lambs from those,” said an emotional Maphathwana.
“When they come to steal the sheep, they come on horseback – horses they have stolen. They then guide the sheep from outside the homesteads and the villages into forests they use as hideouts. Inside the forests, the sheep are kept in kraals made of wire nets. “Some of the sheep are then sold to neighbouring towns, as well as to people in other provinces like KwaZulu-Natal,” he said.
“They were paid as part of lobola in December and were stolen in February. So it means my daughter’s lobola was lost, just like that. It really pains me whenever I think of this.
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