In Memoriam
Dr Jean-Claude Jacobs, who spent the better part of three decades shaping veterinary and livestock services across the Soutpansberg and the former Venda and Gazankulu homelands, died on 9 May at the age of 93. He passed away at the family farm Somershoek, outside Louis Trichardt, where he had been in the care of his daughter Anne.
Jacobs served as head of veterinary services for both Venda and Gazankulu from 1972 and remained in that role through Venda's indep...