A drought of funds after the flood
Without financial help, 30% of the Lower Orange river area in Northern Cape's flood-hit farmers may not be able to continue operating.
Barkly East’s historic holkranse
The spectacular and highly erodible sandstone caves of the Barkly East and Rhodes districts in the north Eastern Cape have been used by the district's inhabitants, from the ancient San...
Fighting back!
Tired of being terrorised by gangs and having to lock themselves in their homes before sunset, the residents of the small Eastern Cape town of Indwe came up with a...
A farmer in need is a farmer indeed
After a number of dry years and with part of the region declared a drought disaster area in mid-2009, 2010 was always going to be tough for the members of...
Is this the future of farming in SA?
An often overlooked threat to food security in South Africa is the fact that many farmers are nearing retirement age, while fewer youngsters enter the sector. This trend isn’t only...
The fight over Gas in the Karoo
Since an Australian company applied for gas exploration rights in the southern Karoo, the local community has taken a stand to protect the environment against international fortune seekers. Heather Dugmore...
Reviving Ongeluksnek’s farms
Coerced by apartheid legislation in the late 1970s, white commercial farmers left the highly productive Ongeluksnek region near Matatiele in the Eastern Cape to make way for a larger Transkei...
The story of SA’s first stock fence
John Sweet Distin built the first livestock fence in South Africa back in the 1800s, making him one of farming’s first livestock management pioneers. But it was his spendthrift sons...
Where have the farmers gone?
Having grown up as a farm boy on the Transkei border and being fluent in isiXhosa, Farmer's Weekly correspondent Orrock Robertsen took some survey work in a deep rural district...
Ongeluksnek getting the landless productive again
In the late 1970s, Ongeluksnek Valley near Matatiele in the Eastern Cape slipped into productive obscurity, after its commercial farmers faced compensated removal by the nationalist government to increase the...
Building an empire on rented land
The Eastern Free State, where Maphale is determined to become a successful commercial farmer despite constant theft from Lesotho.
Lowveld school farms for its orphans
Mzinti primary school in rural Mpumalanga is not only growing its own food using eco-friendly techniques, but has started farming chickens and teaching other schools to grow food too.
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