Mark, their (cape town city) mismanagement of water will have the same effect by closing farms.    There are centuries-old farms in winelands and overberg, with court signed irrigation rights under the new constitution and predating the Berg River Dam that may as well now use those court orders for toilet paper.   They have irrigation rights but no water - kiss fruit orchards goodbye and with it a few hundred thousand jobs.   It is not the lack of rain that is the problem, we have seen off dozens of droughts in the last few hundred years.   It is cape town sucking off all our rain that is the problem.   I live near a housing estate here that was forced to install its own sewerage treatment plant.   But no, the City dumps its sewer in the ocean and draws another 100 million liter from us.

Shall we send all those soon to be unemloyed people to the Cape Flats now to go and live in Patricia’s buddies’ property developments?