Koos Dafel, chairperson of the Red Meat Producers Organisation (RPO) in Mpumalanga, said that 11 out of 12 tests done on cattle in the Verena district came back positive for FMD. “The government is making all kinds of excuses and denying that there is an outbreak because they are too lazy to deal with the problem. If they say there is a problem then it means they have to do something about it.”
Read the full story in the 11 May 2012 issue of FW.
