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We're in dire straits: Harrismith farmer

───   REFILWE GAESWE 11:41 Fri, 19 Sep 2014

We're in dire straits: Harrismith farmer | News Article

Harrismith - A Harrismith farm owner says emergency services have not arrived at his property after runaway veld fires that have destroyed vast areas of farm land.

George Galloway says the damage to his farm Tygerskloof is enormous.

Galloway says all power lines are off.

Three people were killed in the runaway veld fires.
 
Retired pastor, Johan Mocke, his fifteen-year-old son Zander and a farmworker, who hasn't yet been named, were killed on Mount Everest Game Farm while trying to fight the fires.
 
A government delegation is expected to visit the area today where it is hoped declaring the area a disaster area will be considered

Refilwe Mekoa/OFM News

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