The Anglo-Boer War’s Basutoland refugees
It is a little known fact that Orange Free State Boer families were once offered refuge during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) in Lesotho, then Basutoland. The resentment of Boer fighters,...
Markets for land reform beneficiaries
Too many once-successful farms now lie fallow, so it’s a breath of fresh air to hear of an initiative that seeks to prevent this from happening, says Lloyd Phillips.
Never too old to be a top farmer
Grain SA/Absa Developing Grain Producer of the Year for 2013, Maurice Boki, is proof that age should never be considered a barrier to successful farming.
A winning community project
Sphiwe Machika, the 2013 DAFF Female Farm Worker of the Year, says working with the best team has brought the best out in her. Peter Mashala visited Sphiwe at the...
Plague of the countryside –drought and fire
As drought grips many parts of South Africa, it has again become clear how vulnerable rural communities are to weather extremes. Mike Burgess travelled through the southern Free State and...
Bushmen, rustling & the adoption of livestock
In the last days of their independence in the highlands of the Eastern Cape, Lesotho and KwaZulu-Natal, the Bushmen became stock thieves and integrated domestic livestock into their rock art...
Commercial farming success for newcomer
Garnering support from government, industry and the community has helped ease Khanyisile Mkhanyawo’s transition from agricultural newcomer to commercial farmer.
Diversification farming success
Prof Lumkile Nkuhlu, former president Thabo Mbeki’s economic advisor, and his wife Nondima, farm near Vrede in the Free State. Diversification has enabled them to improve their cash flow and...
A day at the races… in the former Transkei
The horse arrived in the Eastern Cape with the first Europeans during the 1700s, and by the late 1800s had become a central part of Xhosa life. The desire to...
The long drought in Namibia
Namibia is suffering its worst drought in 30 years. This is not only affecting grain and livestock production but has left 34% of the population, in southern Africa’s driest country,...
Mpumlanga Top Farmer combines quantity surveying & farming
Combining quantity surveying and farming is highly unusual. But for Joachim Prinsloo, Agri Mpumalanga’s Young Farmer of the Year 2013, it has made all the difference. Lindi van Rooyen visited...
Cross-border problems can’t be ignored
The Eastern Free State region bordering Lesotho is both dramatic and charming, with its huge sandstone cliffs, orchards, grain crops and livestock-dotted landscape. But, as Mike Burgess writes, there is...
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