Farmers

WHAT IS THE BEST ADVICE YOU HAVE EVER BEEN GIVEN? To manage mortality by making sure that I follow a

Buti Malinga has built Vukani Piggery from a very small start – when he left a full-time job to start

WHAT IS THE BEST ADVICE YOU HAVE EVER BEEN GIVEN? Don’t just follow your passion without direction – do what

Lesedi Masebe was living abroad, building her career as a chef working in Australia and New Zealand when her mother’s

Modisaotsile Paul ‘Kenny’ Mochwiri had always imagined himself working in a cosy office, crunching numbers as a finance professional. However,

Noko Seboni’s love of farming almost died when he moved to Gauteng, but his father’s illness led him back to

WHAT IS THE BEST ADVICE YOU HAVE EVER BEEN GIVEN? I was advised to follow my passion and take risks.

Gene Likhanya stumbled across gold when he learnt about the high potential profits to be made farming macadamias, from his

MACADAMIAS – Gene Likhanya, Limpopo We have trees on three different farms ranging from 2 to 15 years old with

Fine Living Farms, owned by the Ramaphala brothers, Thabo, Thabang and Botlhale, operates on four farms that span 53 hectares.

Dimpho Xaba, an agricultural lecturer at Tshwane University of Technology, developed a love for farming at a young age as

The political climate of the early eighties made it impossible for Thubelihle Mthombeni’s dad, David Mthombeni, to pursue his dream

During our first visit to Maria Tswai two years ago, she had just received 35 Bonsmara cows and a bull

As a third-generation farmer, Hlobisile Yende follows in the footsteps of her father and grandfather. Since starting farming full-time three

Watch the full episodes of the successful third season of African Farming here.

African Farming Season 2 Episode 1: Pinky Hlabedi (FULL EPISODE) African Farming Season 2 Episode 2: Mbali Nwoko (FULL EPISODE)

African Farming Episode 1 : Koos and Clifford Mthimkulu are building a family legacy (Full Episode) African Farming Episode 2

Tracy Marobobo, one of the top performers in the Sernick Group’s farmer development programme, gave up an engineering career to

When Thabo Mavundza’s academic journey to become a medical doctor took an unexpected turn, the South African agricultural industry was

The first crop of female farmers has completed the first phase of Momentum Metropolitan Foundation’s Women in Farming programme in

WHAT IS THE BEST ADVICE YOU’VE EVER BEEN GIVEN? I have received a lot of advice but in 2000, my

Elvis Maremani grew up herding goats in the rural village of Mashamba, near Makhado. Seeking an escape from poverty and

WHAT IS THE BEST ADVICE YOU HAVE EVER BEEN GIVEN? Love what you do and give your all in whatever

As a former motor mechanic, Petrus Tsotetsi wasn’t initially destined for agriculture. He was pulled into the industry by a