The drought in the Northern Cape province which has been ongoing for the past 5 years is the worst it has ever been in the past 50 years, and farmers are being ruined due to the government dragging its feet. Northern Cape Premier Dr. Zamani Saul is being asked to declare a provincial emergency and escalate the issue as quickly as possible.
It has been more than a year since the province has been trying to be declared a drought-stricken disaster area as over 70% of the province is suffering from the worst drought in 50 years and and livestock deaths are occurring across a wide area.
Calls for Northern Cape premier, Dr. Zamani Saul, to declare his province a drought disaster area, are intensifying. Organised agriculture have described the situation as a crisis, with 62 000 jobs at risk. Drought aid is set by experts at around R600m to keep farmers on the ground, but authorities have just over R100m as their estimates, which, according to experts, is far
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