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‘Auctions speak Afrikaans, but my money doesn’t,’ says Refilwe

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Auctions often still speak Afrikaans only, says Northern Cape livestock farmer Refilwe Coetzee in a no-holds-barred interview with Farmer’s Inside Track, this week’s podcast that has just been released.

Speaking to Noluthando Ngcakani, the 34-year-old admits that it is not always easy to be a successful female farmer in a male-dominated sector. “When I walk into auctions and they start selling the livestock… I say I am the owner and I tell them, ‘With or without VAT’ Everyone look at each other as if to say, ‘Look at this little girl.”

Coetzee says as much as some people don’t want to believe it, gender (representativity) “is still a massive problem in all industries in South Africa. Being a female is a problem anywhere. It is a problem with promotions, it is a problem with getting things done.”

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