Fire and ice in the Midlands : MPO KwaZulu-Natal
The last week of June 2007 saw the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands experiencing some of the most devastating forest fires in decades. The Karkloof area was particularly hard hit with over 13 000 ha of commercial forest destroyed. Numerous homesteads belonging to smallholders, farmers and farm workers were damaged or destroyed, some people losing everything they owned.