Die voortslepende probleem van veldbrande op plase langs die Lesotho-grens, in die oorgrote meerderheid van gevalle vermoedelik weens brandstigting, wek groot kommer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Van 14 tot 16 Julie is sewe veldbrande binne \u2019n radius van 20 km in die Boesmanskop-gebied, naby Wepener en Zastron, gestig. Boere het groot skade gely en kosbare weiding, vee en infrastruktuur het in die slag gebly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vrystaat Landbou (VL) s\u00ea in \u2018n verklaring die kommer behels nie net die ekonomiese verliese nie; ook veiligheid en oorlewing en dat grensboere met groot verliese, trauma en gevaar te kampe het. Die boere leef daagliks met die vrees dat hul plaas en familie die volgende teiken sal wees, s\u00ea dr. Jane Buys, veiligheidsrisiko-ontleder van VL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn 2024 moes hierdie boere 57 brande in net twee maande bestry. Al die brande is kwaadwillig deur Basotho\u2019s gestig,\u201d s\u00ea Buys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gerard Jordaan, ‘n boer van Boesmanskop, meen daar bestaan onder burgers van Lesotho ‘n wanpersepsie dat veld afgebrand moet word om nuwe, groen weiding na afloop van die eerste re\u00ebn te verseker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHulle jaag dan hul vee oor die grens om op Suid-Afrikaanse plase te kom wei,\u00a0iets wat onwettig is,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Buys bevestig dat VL reeds \u2019n dringende versoek aan die LUR\u2019e vir landbou en gemeenskapsveiligheid, die departement van paaie en wervoer, die Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Weermag (SANW) en die SAPD gerig het om met hul eweknie\u00eb in Lesotho te skakel ten einde bewustheid in dorpe en nedersettings aan die ander kant van die grens te skep oor die wetteloosheid en gevolge van die brande.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie probleem word verder vererger deurdat die Working on Fire-span in Van Stadensrus grensboere nie kan bystaan nie, aangesien die grenspad heeltemal onbegaanbaar is. Dit is onmoontlik vir noodvoertuie en toerusting om die betrokke gebiede te bereik. Die probleem is reeds in 2024 aan twee LUR\u2019e uitgewys tydens \u2018n besoek aan die grens,\u201d s\u00ea Buys<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Boere op die grens moet noodgedwonge na hulle eie veiligheid omsien, brande bestry en paaie in stand hou. Dit terwyl hulle heeltyds boer.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
VL doen ‘n ernstige beroep op die minister van openbare werke om die herstel van die grenspad as ‘n voorkeursaak te hanteer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSonder toegang tot die grens kan brande onbeheerbaar raak en selfs tot lewensverlies lei,\u201d waarsku Buys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Intussen raai dr. Jack Armour, kommersi\u00eble bestuurder van VL, alle boere aan om op ho\u00eb gereedheidsvlak te wees met die naderende veldbrandseisoen in gedagte; ook om aktief by hul plaaslike brandbeskermingsvereniging (BBV) in te skakel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Van 14 tot 16 Julie is sewe veldbrande binne \u2019n radius van 20 km in die Boesmanskop-gebied gestig. 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