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An ostrich took a mate for life. It was their nature. Why try and mess up nature? Was the new prosperity not enough for them? …Where would it end?

— Dalene Matthee Fiela's Child (1985)

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Fiela reflecting on the trend in the Long Kloof of people breeding ostriches in order to sell their highly valuable feathers

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