AGRICULTURAL NEWS - Wolmarans previously claimed that his livestock had been infected with snotsiekte due to his neighbours’ mismanagement of their blue wildebeest populations.
The wildebeest carry the disease.
“This caused me to lose 110 stud animals to the disease. My petitions to them to keep the blue wildebeest at least one kilometre away from my fences were simply ignored,” he told Farmer’s Weekly.
The owners of the wildebeest refused to acknowledge that their animals had been responsible for the snotsiekte outbreaks, he added.
