Western Cape vineyards count the cost of fire damage

24 January 2016 - 02:03
By NOMPUMELELO MAGWAZA

For hundreds of Western Cape farmers their harvest could be grapes of wrath after acres of vineyards in Stellenbosch, Overberg, Simonsberg and Kogelberg were this week damaged by raging fires. The costs could run into millions of rands.The Western Cape is South Africa's prime wine-producing region, and the wine belt has some of the world's top winemakers.

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