"The most water we've ever seen in the Hex River Valley"

2026-05-13 00:00

"This is the most water we've ever seen in the Hex River Valley," says a grape grower. Today the sun is shining, but one of their farms had already measured 250mm of rain this month by yesterday – and this had been predicted to be a very dry winter. In fact, in the Cape, the word 'drought' had started to spread.

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