WATCH | 'We have no idea when the swarms will end or when rains will come'

Teams race to spray locusts as 'biblical' swarms destroy crops

18 April 2021 - 00:00

By graeme hosken AND Graeme Hosken

Thousands of hectares of grazing and farmland in the drought-stricken provinces of the Northern Cape and Eastern Cape are in the direct path of swarming brown locusts.

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