Farm Comm News Today

A furore has erupted in Seaview where community members and a farmer are at odds over his shooting of Egyptian geese, and now an animal welfare organisation is investigating.

While the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality claimed its fleet management woes had come to an end and they could refuel municipal vehicles, when bush fires broke out in the city on Tuesday a local neighbourhood watch group had to step in.

With near gale-force winds in Gqeberha on Friday afternoon, water-bombing aircraft were grounded, leaving just the hard-pressed ground crews to battle fires.

Helicopters scooping water from the sea and dropping it over huge flames told the story as multiple fires continued to rage across Nelson Mandela Bay on Wednesday.