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The good vet is not with us anymore. Tulis are still being bred in Namibia, but all of the indigenous breeds are suffering to find new breeders.

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Namibia is the driest country south of the Sahara in Africa. Here you find 4 ecotypes of Nguni cattle, locally known as SANGA. But SANGA also includes Tuli, Afrikander and other indigenous breeds. Therefore we call our different ecotypes Kaoko Sanga, Owambo sanga, Kavango Sanga and Caprivi...

Water gets mostly pumped out of boreholes. Sometimes very deep to about 200m. Then we have basins, either concrete or plastic or corrugated iron, at every post to facilitate fast running when the herd comes to drink. My basins are from 60 cu m to 200 cu m. Herd size can be from 100 to 400 heads...

No, I don´t cut or process any grass. But my neighbor does on a very big scale. What I do cut is bush for so-called Boskos, invader bush processed through a chipper and balanced as a ruminant feed in times of drought.

The exchange rate is 15 to 1. We use very little machines. I have a tractor, a trailer, a feed mixer and a hammer mill. All of them good used, old and worn. One reason I decided on the Sanga cattle was, that 3 men can handle any animal with a rope and their bare hands. Standard stocking of the...

The exchange rate is 15 to i Andrew just for information, me and another Nguni farmer are the only two organic registered meat producers in Namibia. So no chemicals or poisons to be applied. We have also done away with supplements. So our cattle thrive on salt lick and use bush for supplementation.

Andrew I have my own FB page FARM GOTTESGABE - FRIGA NGUNI STUD and I manage the NGUNI BREEDERS SOCIETY OF NAMIBIA page as well. You can have a look there. And for pictures of the cattle. My web page is www.gottesgabe.com

Farmers live on their individual farms. And every owner tries to defend himself as good as he can, or his purse allows. As you probably know, we have white farmers - and we have a huge majority of black people, who live in the towns, own no land, and mostly are very poor. The government of the...

In this country farmers own mostly freehold land. Government purchases land for redistribution to indigenous people. This is a total disaster, as they distribute land to people that only want land for squatting. No production whatever - and soon this land turns into desert. 4700 ha is a very...

I am farming now for 40 years, raising indigenous Sanga cattle from cow to 4 year old oxen, without any chemical or other inputs, except good natural grazing. My biggest obstacle right now is how to retire without a willing follower. Out of my 5 children only the youngest girl would like to take...