Durban - If the price of meat and other food spikes at the supermarket, thank the decision to release convicted stock thieves because of Covid-19.
She warned that extreme levels of stock and crop theft would make it unviable for farmers, who would stop producing, which would lead to shortages and push up prices. Diane Kohler-Barnard, who chairs the DA’s Rural Safety Workstream, quantified the costs related to agricultural crime last year as about R10bn“and a further economic output loss to the South African economy of R20billion”.
“There has been a significant upsurge in the number of reported incidents of farm attacks since the start of the lockdown. These attacks have been particularly heinous in nature, with brutal torture being commonplace.”
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