Mabalingwe wild fires rage while community copes with crisis

Homes lost, game rescued as need for aid and food escalates

25 September 2023 - 13:31

While people who have lost their homes begin to take stock and rangers try to determine the devastation to wildlife, the raging wild fires that tore through Mabalingwe Game Reserve in the Waterberg mountains just outside Bela Bela are raging on...

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