ICYMI: ‘It’s high time we protect our food security guardians’

Aug 28, 2023

The alarming rate at which farm attacks have taken place in South Africa is a call for concern for organised agriculture across the country with food security at stake. Mpumalanga Agriculture executive manager Robert Davel has urged community members to stand up for...

Beauty’s harvest: From despair to #SoilSista

Aug 3, 2023

The launch of the third cohort of the #SoilSistas programme, presented by Corteva Agriscience and coordinated by the GIBS Entrepreneurship Academy and Food For Mzansi, heralds a new chapter in women entrepreneurship in agriculture. Among the inspiring women chosen for...

From street-smart youth to kasi farming prodigy

Aug 3, 2023

When the sun sets on black communities, the loss of a breadwinner casts a shadow of real-life challenges. Meet Tebogo Ntseoane from Kwaggafontein in Mpumalanga. Shaped by life’s trials, he blossomed into a responsible adult, shouldering the weight of his family’s...

Pilot wannabe Kwezi flies high on her EC farm

Jun 27, 2023

Growing up in the cultural heartland of Mpumalanga – Siyabuswa – surrounded by indigenous, South African grains and crops, Nontsikelelo Kwezi envisioned life as a farmer. It was the promise of peace and minimalism that attracted her. Today, she farms more than...