/ 4 November 2000

FARMERS FLEE FOOT AND MOUTH AREA

A GROUP of communal farmers have been arrested and their cattle impounded after they apparently tried to move their animals out of the foot and mouth control area in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands, the Department of Agriculture said this week. The farmers would be charged with contravening the Animals Disease Control Act. It is the second arrest for breaking the quarantine since the disease broke out two months ago. Government has started culling all the animals in the affected communal area at Georgedale.