{"id":43248,"date":"2026-08-20T11:34:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T09:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43248"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T09:34:28","slug":"sa-province-agriculture-nears-80-foot-and-mouth-vaccination-goal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-province-agriculture-nears-80-foot-and-mouth-vaccination-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"SA province\u00a0agriculture nears 80% Foot-and-Mouth vaccination goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The South Africa&#8217;s (SA) KwaZulu-Natal Agriculture Department says its on track to reach its target of vaccinating 80% \u00a0of the estimated 2.5 million cattle in the province against Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The province is one of the worst affected provinces in the outbreak that started in 2021. It has so far vaccinated about 1.7 million cattle, with two more districts to go.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">KZN Agriculture Member of the Executive Council Thembeni KaMadlopha-Mthethwa says, \u201cWe will treat FMD as if its still at it\u2019s highest peak, we will never stop treating FMD as enemy number one in this province.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">KaMadlopha-Mthethwa says, \u201cWe will make sure that we still stock vaccine, we still have staff, we still have name tags, we still look at animal movement because we do not want to see the previous scenario coming to this province again.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\u2014SABC\u2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":39469,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-43248","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The province is one of the worst affected provinces in the outbreak that started in 2021.","published_date":"","news_description":"The province is one of the worst affected provinces in the outbreak that started in 2021.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43249,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43248\/revisions\/43249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}