Draadsitter takes stand on poachers
28 April 2015 - 02:01
An innovation by an electrical engineer in Pretoria to curb cattle theft and rhino poaching has put him in the running for the inaugural Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation. It was early one morning about two years ago after visiting a farmer friend that Ernst Pretorius, 43, thought of the Draadsitter (fence-sitter in Afrikaans) - a device that detects if a fence up to 800m away is being tampered with and sets off an alarm.
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