Factors Affecting Sheep Theft in the Free State Province of South Africa

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Stock Theft: Rural Livestock Farmers' Entrepreneurial Perspectives

“…To this course, Lombard (2015) recommends that support should be provided to the livestock farmers either by government institutions, the SAPS STUs, and other agricultural businesses or organisations. If stock theft is not successfully controlled in the selected provinces, it will not only threaten the sustainability of the South African livestock industry but also the competitiveness of the envisaged business enterprises of this sector.…”

“…Thus, livestock provides a net benefit such as food production (Milk and meat), raw materials (Wool), draught, manure, cultural practices, revenue, and investment can improve the resilience of smallholder mixed crop-livestock farmers in developing countries, against the external susceptibilities such as scarcity of water and climate change (Dedekind, 2016). Lombard (2015) opines that stock theft is not anew established crime that every individual is concern about in Africa, it is as nonmodern as farming itself. Recorded cases on stock theft in the Amersfoort region of MP and South Africa as a whole can be traced back to 1806.…”