It saddens me, to be very honest. While this great mess is being "tended" to by so many authorities, no one thought of stopping the dump from burning first and then making plans to work with the problems at hand.

I was on stable duty the past weekend (27 & 28th August) and I could barely breathe in the air around me. Still. It's been 3 months.

Some of the horses got a tad bit better the past month...Saturday morning 4 of the horses had snotty noses again and “goo” running from their eyes; making a mucky substance and they seem to struggle to open their eyelets. It makes me furious and sad at the same time. It pulls my heart in so many directions. I want to start screaming and yelling, swearing, and a lot of other hostile emotions, and then I feel this overwhelming sadness and despair and the desire to abduct them all and move them as far away from the stables as humanly possible.

But it’s not. They have nowhere else to go. They stand in that toxic air day in and day out. They can’t close windows and shut doors. They are trapped in stables having no freaking other option but to breath the air around them.

I understand that, apparently, sorting out the dump takes time, but really?

And all the humans living here too. We are also here, breathing the air. The season has changed so most of the time the wind starts blowing it away around 15h00, when you wake up it smells, some mornings less than others. It continues, every day. With endless meetings of “we are doing something about it.” But that is it. Meetings. No actions. Fumes are all around us. No efforts of containing these fumes.

Friday the 26th of August, I drove from Clanwilliam, fumes were all over the dump side again, and smoke flooding the vleiland and stables. All cars including myself, just driving by. We must wait. We are not allowed to do anything to stop it. We must listen to Government officials and Municipal officers and WAIT.

These animals are suffering as are we. They, however, are at the edge of this mountain of trash. I have nowhere to go with them. Sandveld perde club is the only stable facility around our town. They are stuck there. I even feel guilty most of my days for leaving there and locking my doors and windows so I just can breathe after being at the sables, especially in the mornings. It's supposed to be a bright new day with fresh air for all living lifeforms on earth each day.

It's outrageous and incomprehensible to my mind really, the "you have to wait to help them, we are working on it." It’s not fair. Nor right. If I could I would move them, while the humans try and figure out what to do with their mess. I'm not financially capable to take care of and move 18 horses or buy land to move them. And help their owners get to them to feed and take care of them far away from this mountain of trash and fumes.

I wished, the day I created this petition, I would be able to have great news for all my supporters by now. But I don’t. Unfortunately.