
Food security threatened by incompetence and nepotism. By Mandy de Waal and Jon Pienaar.
Fisheries research expert Moeniba Isaacs remembers a time when kreef (crayfish or rock lobster) and perlemoen (abalone) were staples of the poor and working class. But over the past five years South Africa has mismanaged its fisheries and fish stocks to the point where once-common species are all but wiped out.
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