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Original Post Date: 2011-01-05 Time: 17:00:04 Posted By: News Poster
By Jana-Mari Smith
THE spotlight this week was cast again on stock theft and the gruesome methods used to disable animals and prevent them from fleeing, after a farmer found three live cows in the veld, who had survived for days without food and water after their hamstrings were cut by stock thieves.
Jannie Labuschagne, a farmer in the Otjiwarongo district, said yesterday he could not describe the horror he felt when he saw the cows were still alive after days of lying on the ground with cut hamstrings.
Nearby, Labuschagne and his employees found a bull who had strangled to death after stock thieves left a wire noose around its neck. A fresh killing zone was discovered, with the partial carcasses of two cows left behind. Labuschagne is still missing three cows.
“I am sure they have been slaughtered too,” Labuschagne said.
Like many farmers in Namibia, Labuschagne has had to deal with stock theft before. This case, however, in which the animals were mutilated and left to suffer horribly, confounds him.
“I don’t understand what their goal was,” he said.
Police have begun their investigation into the stock-theft case, but Labuschagne says they have made it clear that the chances of arresting anyone are slim.
“The rain has washed away all tracks, all evidence,” he explained.
This was not Labuschagne’s first encounter with stock thieves.
While the past year has been relatively quiet with regard to stock theft on his farm, Labuschagne is involved in an ongoing court case after he shot a suspected stock thief on his farm in December 2009.
“It was very quiet until now,” he said yesterday.
Stock theft made several headlines towards the end of last year, when farmers in the Okahandja and Karibib districts were overwhelmed with stock theft cases, which led to combined losses of more than N$1 million within a couple of months.
The Police reacted by implementing increased patrols and farmers and the Police partnered up to combat the problem.
As a result, farmers say cases of stock theft in the Karibib and Okahandja areas declined dramatically during the festive season, although little headway has been made in identifying and arresting major players in the cattle theft syndicates.
In Outjo, the Outjo Crime Prevention Forum, which was founded in September 2010, is said to have made a significant dent in stock theft statistics in the district.
Deputy chairperson Johnny Haraseb, who yesterday contacted Labuschagne and offered the group’s assistance, said the forum has been extremely busy since September, and the results of the improved partnership with the Police and other activities were visible during the festive season when stock theft was significantly lower.
A problem noted by the forum, however, is that stock thieves simply move to another district once they become aware of increased efforts to catch them.
Haraseb warned that while cases of stock theft in December were low, farmers must be alert during the rainy season.
“The thieves use the rainy season, because no tracks are left behind. Farmers have to ensure that patrols are done in camps during the rainy season. In this season, the stock thieves take big numbers of animals, not just one or two,” he warned.
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Original date published: 5 January 2011
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201101050364.html?viewall=1