Mealies

The prospect of a bumper crop has caused prices to plummet and debts still have to be paid back.

Farmers are leaving in droves and land is lying fallow in the face of the worst drought in 23 years.

”No farmers, no future.” So says the bumper sticker on farmer Bully Botma’s white bakkie, parked in Bothaville, South Africa’s mealie capital.