Establishment of firefighting teams During Autumn, Mpumalanga is susceptible to raging veld fires which usually ravage natural resources such as forestry, vegetation, agricultural crops and live stock. This results in loss of revenue and jobs for the people of the province and thus add to the outflow of scarce skills. Former farm workers There are a number of unemployed and skilled former farm workers in the community, who had been exploited on farms or badly treated as labour tenants in the previous dispensation. There was a need to develop special programmes to encourage them to rejoin farming.