Rinderpest sweeps southern Africa
1896 · national
The cattle plague crosses the Limpopo in 1896 and kills millions of head of cattle and draught oxen across the country. Transport riding collapses; for Karoo districts the ox-wagon economy that carried wool to the ports is crippled even where flocks are spared.
Told in
- mentioned Eighty-one thousand morgen
- evidence The van Rensburgs of the dry north