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PODCAST: Agriworker’s son now drives the bakkie and owns the farm

by Duncan Masiwa
12th Nov 2019
in Mentors, News
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For many farmers, their work is a labour of love. For Whernit Dirks, co-owner of Genadeshoop Boerdery near Piketberg in the Western Cape, nothing has ever been truer.

In the second episode of the Farmer’s Inside Track podcast and video series, Food For Mzansi’s editor Dawn Noemdoe and co-founder Ivor Price speak to Dirks. He’s the son of a family of agriworkers who’s been farming grain and livestock with his family for more than 14 years.

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  • Read: How Whernit Dirks went from labourer to tip-top farmer.

In the podcast, Dirks passionately explains how he went from sitting on the back of a bakkie as a worker to now driving it as the owner of his own thriving farm.

In the video he recalls moving moments in his personal agricultural journey, along with openly sharing his frustrations with the industry, fighting against exclusion and his thoughts on being young and black in the sector.

Providing need-to-know advice for agriculturists and farmers, Dirk also guides Price and Noemdoe through his agricultural mishaps and the costly lessons he has learnt in managing a family-led farming and agriculture business.

“I’ve learned not to spend on agricultural equipment or goods that I don’t really need. A big mistake we did was to expand our business so rapidly without taking into consideration that droughts would come,” Dirks says.

  • LINK: Click here to listen to our podcast interview with Dirks.
  • LINK: Click here to watch our video interview with Dirks.

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DUNCAN MASIWA is a budding journalist with a passion for telling great agricultural stories. He hails from Macassar, close to Somerset West in the Western Cape, where he first started writing for the Helderberg Gazette community newspaper. Besides making a name for himself as a columnist, he is also an avid poet who has shared stages with artists like Mahalia Buchanan, Charisma Hanekam, Jesse Jordan and Motlatsi Mofatse.

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