Herman du Preez planted his boots in the red dust at the entrance to one of his chicken sheds, its silver coating gleaming in the sunlight. He folded his thick, brown forearms across his chest, and declared quietly, but firmly: “I’ve had enough.” 
The 46-year-old fourth-generation farmer in South Africa’s arid North West Province exuded strength, but his eyes were red and watery from fatigue and stress. 
“I can’t go on like this,” he told The Epoch Times. “I’m losing thousands of birds every day. They’re suffocating and dying of heatstroke because no electricity means I can’t pump oxygen and cool air into my sheds.” …