Are farmers hurting themselves with symbols?
Following on from my recent post about the different ways in which farmers and farmer organisations react via the media to farm attacks,
Abusing the Bushman’s canvas
Retired farmer Victor Briggs began studying rock art almost 40 years ago. He told Mike Burgess about the pitiful state of many of South Africa’s rock art shelters, and what...
Two very different farmer reactions to recent episodes of farm violence
A few months ago while bumming around North West I stumbled upon a Pieter Koen gig in a district of game ranches called Koedoesrand.
Use your freedoms wisely cautions former intelligence co-ordinator
The storm over a risque satirical painting of President Jacob Zuma has led ANC leaders like Gwede Mantashe to warn South Africans not to make gratuitous use of constitutional freedoms.
Citrusdal’s tragic harvest
Poverty and moral decay leave a wake of violence, threatening farm security in the tranquil Cederberg. Sean Christie reports.
Some controversy on farm murder monument
The annual pilgrimage of farmers and sympathetic parties to the so-called farm murder monument on the slopes of the Ysterberg alongside the N1 near Mokopane is set to take place...
Government fails farmers in bureaucratic bungle
A year ago, Minister Joemat-Pettersson said that progress in agriculture needed encouragement and smallholder farmers must be placed at the centre of rural economies. How then could government allow the...
Ongoing court case of Mooi River farm murders
Families of the Sherwood Farm murder victims will not soon see justice done to the murderers, as one has been released and another’s trial has been postponed until June.
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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