Eric Thabo Stoch News Today

North West villagers and farmers are calling for the province to declare recent veld fires a disaster after almost half a million hectares of land were destroyed over a period of six months this year.

While wildfires have been blazing for over a week in large parts of the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District, uncontrollable blazes have also been reported in parts of the Ngaka Modiri Molema Distric...

Thousands of hectares of land have been lost in the North West’s runaway veld fires. Outside help is expected to arrive on Friday.

More than two million hectares of grazing land were burnt in fires across South Africa over the past year. In neighbouring Namibia, more than half a million hectares were lost.