Western Cape finalists for Female Farmer of the Year

Top Western Cape women finalists in the Female Farmer of the Year Competition for 2007. From left, Sonja Ferreira, voted Top Producer for National Markets for her goat farming enterprise just outside Oudtshoorn; Nomvuzo Peggy Kal received the award for Top Producer for Household Use on behalf of the Masivuke Community Garden group from Khayelitsha; Joyene Isaacs, head of the Western Cape Department of Agriculture; Janice Jamieson, chosen Top Producer for Export Markets for her Alpaca farm just outside Montagu; and Margaret Msomi, who received the award for the Top Producers for Informal Markets on behalf of the Zola Organic Farming Project, which is run by four women from Hermanus. – Glenneis Erasmus