This, despite the fact that crime in South Africa decreased in the same year.  The civil rights organisation AfriForum released its latest report on farm attacks and murders at its recent press conference. Andrea Muller, a researcher at AfriForum, said AfriForum’s research shows 63 farm murders occurred in 2020, as opposed to 45 farm murders in 2019. Furthermore, AfriForum has declared their strategy to curb farm attacks, and launched their Safeguard Farm Campaign in cooperation with agri-organisation Saai, says Muller.

A locust outbreak has been reported in the Northern Cape. The provincial Agriculture Department says due to heavy rainfall across the country, there has been more than 21 reported endemic outbreaks of brown locusts reported, and they are now moving centrally into the Northern Cape. The latest indications are that the flying adult swarms that have now reached the Upington-district. Northern Cape Agriculture MEC Mase Manopole, visited several farms near Vosberg, to assess the impact of the outbreak. Lee Simmons reports that the locusts are causing considerable damage to crops and grasslands. (See Photo Gallery.)

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A fresh tropical storm, called Guambe, has developed in the Mozambique Channel less than a month after tropical storm Eloise caused extensive damage in southern Africa. The South African Weather Office does not expect it to have an adverse impact on South Africa in the next few days, as it will remain far east of the coast. The tropical storm is considered a moderate tropical storm with surface winds of 63 to 89 km / h. It is moving at 3.7 km / h south and will possibly move south for the next four or five days before turning southeast. The weather office predicts heavy rain, floods and strong winds could occur in the southern coastal areas of Mozambique. The weather office warns that it is not certain exactly how Guambe will move. "Tropical storms are usually fickle and unpredictable and often show very erratic behavior," reads a statement issued by the weather office today.

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