South Africa: For Drought-Slammed Farmers, Changing Old Ways Takes Time - and Cash

Cape Town — In the parched, mountainous hills of Leliefontein, in South Africa's northwest Namakwa district, farmers have long made a living raising oxen and goats.

"That's our passion. It's the only thing we know," says Katrina Schwartz, one of a long line of farmers in the remote Northern Cape region.

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