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Farmer’s love for soil led him back to the promised land

Chantélle Hartebeest -
As a budding scientist, a young Morgan Brand could never imagine that one day he would end up back on his father’s farm as,...
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Editors Choice

Walking the ancient livestock paths of Namaqualand

Clement Cupido -
The Kamiesberg Upland in Namaqualand is a place of cultural and botanical richness. In the Leliefontein communal area of this region one still finds...
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Former paratrooper is now an ethical food warrior

Editors Choice Chantélle Hartebeest -
It’s safe to say that young farmer Robert Patson is a bit of an adventure junkie. As a boy growing up in North Pine in Cape Town he was always on a quest. However, Patson’s journey...

From selling fish and chips to running two farming enterprises

Editors Choice Duncan Masiwa -
When 24-year-old Njabulo Mbokane did her final year at Carolina Academic school in 2013, she had no idea what career path she would follow....

Food is as relative as you can imagine

Editors Choice Noluthando Ngcakani -
Renowned journalist and author Harald Pakendorf has always marched to the beat of his own drum. Pakendorf says while South Africans may be different...

‘Hunger to succeed’ lands 21yo wine enthusiast a rare opportunity

Editors Choice Duncan Masiwa -
The moment when a 21-year-old describes wine as “bottled poetry”, you immediately know that it’s their passion talking. It is this exact passion that...

LIFESTYLE

Recipes

RECIPE: Braised oxtail and garlic mash will have you asking for more

Noluthando Ngcakani -
The fragrant smell of herbed, braised red meat on a Sunday afternoon gives your home a warm, comforting feeling. Oxtail is a cut of...
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Mzansi Flavour

‘The Glam Chef’ always gets dolled up before she cooks

Chantélle Hartebeest -
Thandi Maphai believes she always needs to look her best when she cooks. Her appearance, she says, “influences the end result of her dishes”....
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RECIPE: The Glam Chef’s flapjacks

Breakfast Recipes Staff Reporter -
Thandi Maphai believes “we eat with our eyes first” and that appearance when cooking is everything. The young chef is always glammed up and she’s widely known by many...

Back to school lunchbox ideas from a working mom

Lifestyle Philile Mdletshe -
Not only does Philile Mdletshe balance life as a medical doctor, wife, and a kickass mom that prepares lip-smacking meals for her family, she...

Back-to-school brain foods

Lifestyle Andrea Du Plessis -
The new year brings new challenges and as we head for the back to school season, it is time to focus on foods that...

Hip chef Keanon Michaels wants to train and empower other young chefs

Mzansi Flavour Chantélle Hartebeest -
Keanon Michaels is hip and happening. The Capetonian is a chef, surfer and an enthusiastic dancer. It was this active life – and the...

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MZANSI RECIPES

Cheap Recipe Ideas

How to make delicious family meals on a SASSA budget

Dawn Noemdoe -
Trying to stay afloat with your monthly budget while juggling life and managing a household, all whilst making sure your family eats nutritious and...
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RECIPE: Slow Cooked Tripe

African Food Chantélle Hartebeest -
In 2016 Vanessa Dossi, a 28-year-old digital marketer and self-taught cook, turned her food blog into a lucrative business and she hasn’t looked back....

RECIPE: Lemon Butter Fish

Dinner Recipes Chantélle Hartebeest -
Nompilo Mathe might not be a chef by profession, but she’s known as the queen of the kitchen on social media. The 34-year-old is...

MZANSI FLAVOUR

Celebrity Chef

Methoa Zitha wears his love for food on his sleeve

Chantélle Hartebeest -
He is not a qualified chef, but Methoa Zitha wears his love for food on his sleeve. Zitha’s willpower to move past the circumstances...
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Chef Liziwe Matloha shares her recipe for success

Celebrity Chef Chantélle Hartebeest -
Chef Liziwe Matloha’s desire to be the best in everything she does is her recipe for success. This drive has served her well, leading...

From waiter to celebrity chef

Celebrity Chef Chantélle Hartebeest -
Pete Goffe-Wood, widely known as Mzansi’s Kitchen Cowboy, started his brilliantly crafted career as a waiter 33 years ago and never looked back. Today the...

FARMERS INSIDE TRACK

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Farmer's Inside Track

PODCAST: Livestock farmer considers lack of government assistance a blessing in disguise

Duncan Masiwa -
Imagine running a farm without any government assistance and how difficult that must be. That is the reality for most commercial farmers in Mzansi,...
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Farming Mentors

‘Quantity, quality and common sense,” is this farmer’s success mantra

Duncan Masiwa -
Mampe Mmeregi always dreamt of owning her own farm one day. Her aspirations, however, seemed far-fetched, as there were little to no agricultural activities...
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Movers and Shakers

Free State farmer’s 21st birthday gift yields success

Noluthando Ngcakani -
A 26-year-old Free State farmer has managed to create a profitable business out of a mammoth piece of land he received as a gift...
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Mzansi Flavour

‘The Glam Chef’ always gets dolled up before she cooks

Chantélle Hartebeest -
Thandi Maphai believes she always needs to look her best when she cooks. Her appearance, she says, “influences the end result of her dishes”....
Read more
Breakfast Recipes

RECIPE: The Glam Chef’s flapjacks

Staff Reporter -
Thandi Maphai believes “we eat with our eyes first” and that appearance when cooking is everything. The young chef is always glammed up and she’s widely known by many...
Read more
Movers and Shakers

Agri Careers: Soil scientist (and agricultural maverick)

Duncan Masiwa -
If finding solutions to problems surrounding food supply and the environment is your thing, then you might want to consider a career as a...
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Agribusiness

WATCH: Lavender gives gang-ridden community a fighting chance

Noluthando Ngcakani -
This week’s video episode of Farmer’s Inside Track features Marcelle du Plessis, the co-founder of Lavender in Lavender Hill on the Cape Flats. The...
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Between the Headlines

Sweetie, do you know where your honey comes from?

Zosuliwe Kala -
Honey-lovers, did you know that we don’t have a traceability system that helps ensure the quality of what you buy? South Africans consume much...
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Farmer's Inside Track

PODCAST: Farming power couple reinvents themselves after retrenchment

Staff Reporter -
In 2004 farming couple Alan and Eugene Simons were retrenched from their jobs as agricultural workers. Grappling for ways to put food on their...
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Lifestyle

Back to school lunchbox ideas from a working mom

Philile Mdletshe -
Not only does Philile Mdletshe balance life as a medical doctor, wife, and a kickass mom that prepares lip-smacking meals for her family, she...
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Motsepe announces multi-billion rand fund for black farmers

News Staff Reporter -
Billionaire businessman Dr Patrice Motsepe says there are high-level discussions with, amongst others, the Motsepe Foundation and banks to launch a multi-billion rand fund...
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How a Free State farmer brought his dying land back from the brink

Agri-innovation Dawn Noemdoe -
Danie Slabbert (39) might look like a typical farmer, but his forbearers are probably turning in their graves questioning his unconventional farming methods. This...
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‘Let us all grow big,’ says Jozi’s first Nigerian farmer

African Food Magnificent Mndebele -
Edward Wisdom (48) is originally from the southeast of Nigeria. Since coming to South Africa in 1994 he has carved out a niche for...
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Cutting-edge Karoo farm school breaks poverty cycle

It Takes a Village Julienne Du Toit -
A Climax windpump spins and creaks quietly alongside a dirt road linking Colesberg with the blue horizon. There is a cool morning breeze and...
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