Net soos wat sy skape in \u2019n hoek vasgekeer, verskeur of doodgebyt word, so voel Kosie Meissenheimer (64) al oor die kwessie van rondloperhonde wat in troppe op sy plaas by Dwarskersbos kom om verwoesting te skep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy skade alleen beloop al meer as \u2019n honderdduisend rand vir die 36 skape wat die afgelope jaar in groepe van tussen vyf en elf op \u2019n keer doodgebyt is. Of hulle is s\u00f3 stukkend gebyt en beseer dat Meissenheimer hulle van kant moes maak \u2013 iets wat elke boer se hart erg raak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSkape is vredeliewende diere wat rustig moet wei om hul kondisie te hou,\u201d verduidelik hy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Om deur \u2019n trop honde gejaag te word, verhoog vlakke van onder meer skildklier-epinefrien en glukokortiko\u00efede en dit dra kalsium van die bloed na die vetweefsel oor, wat die vleis oneetbaar maak. \u2019n Skaap wat doodgemaak moet word n\u00e1 \u2019n honde-aanval kan dus nie geslag word nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit is elke keer vir Meissenheimer en sy werkers traumaties om op sulke diere af te kom waar hulle l\u00ea en ly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy boer al 42 jaar op die plaas. Tot die aanvalle op sy skape begin het, kon Meissenheimer tussen sy skape loop en met sy bakkie tussen hulle deurry, maar nou is hulle so gespanne dat hulle dadelik begin weghardloop as hulle iemand sien.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meissenheimer het verskeie plekke op sy plaas in die Pampoenkraal-gebied aan Weslander <\/i>uitgewys waar skape langs mekaar begrawe is. Di\u00e9 skaapbegraafplase is vreemd op \u2019n plaas waar al vyf geslagte lank met skape geboer word. Meissenheimer ken dit nie en is oortuig daarvan dat dit saamval met die verkoop van die Sunset-avontuurplaas (Gedeelte 1 van 33 Pampoenkraal) langsaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Luidens hofstukke van \u2019n hofsaak tussen onder meer Rodney Bartman en Brian Dalton wou die kopers van di\u00e9 1 172 hektaar-plaas gedeeltes daarvan verkoop aan mense wat deel sou vorm van \u2019n beoogde selfonderhoudende woongemeenskap. Om die plaas te bekom, het hulle in 2017 \u2019n rakmaatskappy, Polanocol, gekoop. Die plaas is steeds in Polanocol se naam geregistreer met Bartman as direkteur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op sosiale media word die plaas bemark as \u2019n selfbeskikkingsgebied onder die naam van die Zuidland-selfbeskikkingsgebied of die Dalbarton-boerderydorp (farming village<\/span>), en lok dit wye belangstelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bartman het aan Weslander <\/i>ges\u00ea dat daar tans 25 huishoudings op die plaas is. Volgens hom is almal \u201caandeelhouers\u201d en daarvolgens moet hulle by streng voorwaardes hou, soos die omheining van woonplekke waar honde aangehou word. \u201cDie honde mag nie toegelaat word om vry op die plaas rond te beweeg nie.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hy raai Meissenheimer en die ander omliggende boere aan om enige van die inwoners op die plaas wie se honde vir hulle skade berokken, hof toe te neem. Al die boere wat aan Dalbarton grens, het die afgelope jaar skape weens honde-aanvalle verloor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Volgens die Bergrivier-munisipaliteit l\u00ea die verantwoordelikheid wel by die eienaars van die honde, maar \u00f3\u00f3k by die grondeienaar. \u201cAlbei sal in \u2019n regsproses aanspreeklik gehou word.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2019n Ingeligte by die Bergrivier-munisipaliteit het benadruk dat die plaas ni\u00e9 gehersoneer is om \u2019n \u201cdorp\u201d op te vestig nie. Die mense wat daarop gaan bly en \u201cgrond koop\u201d, doen dit sonder om enige titelakte te ontvang, want die grond mag nie onderverdeel word nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die munisipaliteit is in \u2019n derde hooggeregshofgeding sedert 2019 met Bartman betrokke om sy aansoek om selfbeskikking teen te staan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2019 en 2021 het Bartman namens Dalbarton\/Zuidland hofstukke ingedien vir die reg op selfbeskikking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Volgens die munisipaliteit het hulle elke keer \u2019n regspan aangestel om die aansoeke teen te staan. \u201cIn albei gevalle het die applikant versuim om finale hofstukke in te dien.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n In die jongste hofgeding sou die saak weer m\u00f4re (Vrydag 10 Augustus) in die hooggeregshof aangehoor word, maar omdat Dalbarton\/Zuidland nie hul stukke betyds ingedien het nie, is geen regter aangewys nie, en die saak gaan dus nie op daardie dag aangehoor word nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die munisipaliteit het benadruk dat onwettighede ingevolge die Wet op Grondgebruiksbeplanning aangepak word deur middel van skriftelike kennisgewings en hofgedinge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hulle het ges\u00ea die onwettighede op Gedeelte 1 van 33 Pampoenkraal (Dalbarton) word steeds deur die polisie en die munisipaliteit gemonitor en \u2019n gesamentlike inspeksie is die afgelope twee maande gehou. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2019n Vergadering is ook einde verlede jaar gehou met verteenwoordigers van onder meer Dalbarton, die munisipaliteit, die polisie en die menseregtekommissie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meissenheimer meen die probleem gaan net al erger word met nog gesinne met honde wat op die plaas gaan kom woon. Die laaste keer dat van sy skape doodgebyt en verniel is, het hy die polisie laat kom om die hond na wie die bloedspoor gelei het, te kom verwyder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meissenheimer het wel hierna met \u2019n siviele geding begin, maar n\u00e1 bykans R10 000 besluit dit gaan hom nie baat nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Daar is al in vorige gevalle aan Meissenheimer ges\u00ea \u2019n hond se eienaar is dood of het weggetrek. \u201cWat kan ek dan verder doen, as die eienaar \u2018dood\u2019 is?\u201d vra hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHierdie honde is nie honger nie. Hulle kom \u2018speel\u2019 met die skape omdat hulle kan.\u201d Hy meen dit is nie \u2019n rooikat soos wat Bartman as moontlikheid voorhou nie. \u201c \u2019n Rooikat maak \u2019n skaap dood en eet dan van die sagte vleis; hy los die res van die karkas. My skape se ore word afgeskeur, hul neuse oopgebyt en baiekeer word hulle dan net so gelos.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bartman bly op \u2019n deel van die plaas, die Sanddoring-wildplaas met \u2019n ho\u00eb wildomheining, terwyl die res van die grond standaard draadomheining het. Hy hou vol dat al die wonings waar honde aangehou word, behoorlik omhein is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2019n Gesin met vyf honde, byvoorbeeld, bly \u00f3p Meissenheimer se grensdraad op \u2019n staanplek wat nie omhein is nie. Sowat 4 km van Meissenheimer se grond grens aan Dalbarton. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Met Weslander<\/i> se besoek aan Meissenheimer se plaas was dit oor die grensdraad duidelik dat staanplekke vir nuwe aankomelinge al langs di\u00e9 draad af gereedgemaak is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Bartman het nie geantwoord op die vraag waarom dit juis so gedoen is nie. Hy verwys na \u2019n voorval waarin buurhonde glo \u2019n volstruis op die wildplaas doodgebyt het en meen dat enige vingerwysing gerugsteun moet word deur bewyse, \u201cnie gegrond op aannames in die soeke na \u2019n skuldige nie\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meissenheimer is moedeloos \u2013 soveel skade kan hy nie deurlopend ly nie en hy kan ook nie ophou om die reuse stuk grond langs Dalbarton vir skaapboerdery te gebruik nie. 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