FMD threat: Lobatse grinds to a halt

Butcheries here are running on empty.  Many have resorted to selling chicken.  Some have given up and placed their fate in the hands of those at the centre of the issue.

In the space of a week, the country’s oldest town, whose economy relies heavily on the beef ranches surrounding it, is looking down the barrel of a gun.  With the suspension of cattle movements and beef exports due to the encroachment of buffalo elsewhere in Zone 11, Lobatse’s beef industry has been frozen.