Bad roads threaten rural communities
Angry farmers, rural shopkeepers and taxi drivers are so gatvol about the state of roads in the Cathcart and Stutterheim regions of the Eastern Cape they’ve begun repairing the roads...
Louis Trichardt farmers create bravery cross
On 28 May 2011, Louis Trichardt farmer Jan Louw returned after dark to his farm Nooitgedacht with his partner Colleen Liddle and her son Ferdie Landman.
Saving the Mulanje cedar
Malawi’s national tree, the famous Mulanje cedar, is facing extinction due to political corruption, illegal woodcutting and bad management in the past. The Mount Mulanje Conservation Trust is working hard...
KwaSani fights the scourge of stock theft
With local police untrained and under-equipped, commercial and communal livestock farmers in KZN’s KwaSani area feel abandoned by the government and are coming together to deal with this ever-present menace....
Marlow Agricultural High School bears fruit
One of the country’s leading agricultural schools Marlow, near Cradock in Eastern Cape, was founded in 1931 – with nine students – to support the traditional wool and mohair industries...
Farming at an early age
Grade 10 Michaelhouse pupil, Michael Mandy, has shown great initiative at an early age, and has been earning money from his agricultural pursuits since the age of eight. Robyn Joubert...
Introducing farm band, Plassmoord
You won’t find the agricultural district of Koedoesrand on many maps, and the folks who live and farm there like it that way. Sean Christie chanced upon a Koedoesrand garage...
Meet our cover girl
She drives a tractor. Runs a game lodge. Has an excellent eye for hunting and a couple of trophies to prove it. And enjoys cooking and fashion. Our Farmer’s Weekly...
Rural security: what’s the plan?
The fight against rural crime depends heavily on close, ongoing co-operation between farmers and the police, as set out in the National Rural Security Plan. Sean Christie explores whether this...
What happens when farmers’ wives make a plan
The Eastern Cape is 'frontier country'. It breeds gritty do-it-yourself and don’t-give-up independence. And that’s the spirit behind the thriving Farmers’ Country School in the little town of Bedford, where...
Mentors, not freebies, drive this agri project
Much agricultural potential lies locked into the livestock and homestead gardens of the Eastern Cape’s former homelands – potential the Mngcunube Development is seeking to unlock via mentorship. Mike Burgess...
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