Afrikaner cancer-patient robbed of life-sustaining medicines while at hospital for chemo-therapy

Afrikaner cancer-patient Deon Klopper 63, robbed of life-sustaining medicines from Standerton home while undergoing chemo-therapy in hospital Journalist Marina Schoombee 7 November 2014 12:40 - Mr Deon Klopper 63, a cancer-sufferer who has to undergo frequent irradiation- and chemo-therapy, was having treatment at the Pretoria Hospital when thugs stole his life-saving medicines from his home on 20 October. His wife Valerie also wasn't home because she was in the Cape for their granddaughter's baptism. A neighbour contacted Mr Klopper about his house having been broken in - the thugs tore off the burglar bars -- but the alerted SA Police Service told him they 'will have to wait (to investigate) until he returns home from hospital". They are investigating now, the police confirmed after he lodged a complaint on 31 October. Mr Klopper has to use a colostomy bag after bowel-cancer and cell-cancer were diagnosed and his medication helps him fight his condition, which is irreversable, said Mrs Klopper. However this death sentence doesn't stop him from protecting the earth's natural resources. He recycles dirty soil through his earth-worm farming* and makes salt-and-pepper shakers from calabash (gourds). "I try to get the environment cleaned up,' he said. After selling 2,700 calabash (salt and pepper shakers from gourds) at one Aardklop art festival he earned R58,000. Earthworms generate tons of casts per acre each year, dramatically improving soil structure. http://standertonadvertiser.co.za/13756/kankerlyer-besteel-van-lewensnoodsaaklike-medisyne/ Earth worms recycle dirty soil: Of all the members of the soil food web, earthworms need the least introduction. Most people become familiar with these soft, slimy, invertebrates at a young age. Earthworms are hermaphrodites, meaning that they exhibit both male and female characteristics. They are major decomposers of dead and decomposing organic matter, and derive their nutrition from the bacteria and fungi that grow upon these materials. They fragment organic matter and make major contributions to recycling the nutrients it contains. Earthworms occur in most temperate soils and many tropical soils. They are divided into 23 families, more than 700 genera, and more than 7,000 species. They range from an inch to two yards in length and are found seasonally at all depths in the soil. In terms of biomass and overall activity, earthworms dominate the world of soil invertebrates, including arthropods. http://urbanext.illinois.edu/soil/SoilBiology/earthworms.htm