AGRICULTURE NEWS - Free State farmers on the Free State’s border with Lesotho are for all intents and purposes left to their own devices as far as safety and security is concerned.
They receive very little, if any, support from state entities such as the South African Police Service (SAPS) or the South African National Defence Force (SANDF), according to Jakkals le Roux, chairperson of Free State Agriculture’s rural safety committee.
He was responding to the recent attack on the farm Balmacara near Zastron, in which three farmworkers were shot and wounded by attackers believed to be from Lesotho.
