These days smallholders are quite likely to keep dogs for security purposes. Our surveys tell us that more than 85% of smallholders have at least […]
Tag: SECURITY
What To Do If Your Horse Is Stolen
Theft of horses, while maybe not on the increase in your area, is not going to disappear and wherever you are you run a risk […]
Equine Theft: A Growing Scourge
Theft of equines ~ donkeys and horses ~ is an increasingly prevalent form of stock theft, although the reasons for the theft of donkeys and […]
Handheld Devices For Personal Protection
With most confrontations happening between perpetrator and victim at around 10m distance, items that produce a projectile are best, says one expert in the industry. […]
What you need to know about electric fences
Part four in our week-long series on security on your smallholding. For more, click here. If your property protection is with an electric fence ~ […]
Integrated alarm control from your cell phone
The third in our series of articles on security. For more, click here. Although most modern home alarm controllers can be connected to a telephone […]
Preventing stock theft
This is the second in a five-part series on security on smallholdings. To read part one, click here. Given the worsening state of unemployment and […]
Security on Smallholdings
Crimes in semi-rural areas have increased in recent years in line with the general upward trend in South Africa’s serious and violent crimes. (Institute for Security […]
Onderstepoort focus of farm attacks
Previously ~ a few years ago ~ Muldersdrift and surrounds held the dubious record as the centre for farm attacks and murders in Gauteng, as […]
DNA could solve SA’s stock theft problem
Stock theft, a problem that lost South African livestock owners R1,24 billion in the 2018/2019 financial year, might have a solution. A new project integrating […]