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The Farm by Richard Haigh5/26/2023 “For the 14 years worked there, these were the only specimens ever saw. For a number of years before settling on the farm, Richard worked in the province’s non-governmental organisation sector, promoting sustainable land use practices among marginalised and impoverished rural people.Ī rare breed “In 1993, while I was working in the Valley of a Thousand Hills for the Valley Trust, came across what appeared to be three pure Izimvu belonging to a household there,” says Richard. R ichard Haigh and his partner David Brennan farm on Enaleni – “place of abundance” – in Manderston just outside Pietermaritzburg. The Izimvu’s relatives include the Swazi and Pedi breeds. When they began migrating south over 2 000 years ago, one of the groups came to the east coast, now KwaZulu-Natal. According to the Agricultural Research Council (ARC’s) indigenous genotypes division, the Zulu sheep, or Izimvu, evolved from the Nguni sheep that were kept by Iron Age people.
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