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Podcast: Didiza applauds rural women in food production

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27th Oct 2021
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This week’s podcast features (from left) Andile Sasanti, Francois van der Vyfer, Thoko Didiza, Dawie Maree, and Didi Claasen. Photos: Supplied/Food for Mzansi

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Agriculture, land reform and rural development minister Thoko Didiza acknowledged the contribution of rural women towards agriculture and food security. Their role cannot be overstated, she said during her address to farmworkers in the Cederberg region of the Western Cape.

Highlights of Didiza’s speech are included in the latest edition of the Farmer’s Inside Track podcast, now available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. Didiza visited the region on Monday as part of the earlier World Food Day celebrations.

World Food Day is a global United Nations initiative used to highlight food security challenges. Didiza said the day also opened up much-needed conversations around the importance of agriculture in our country, and around access to nutrition. 

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“We look at the importance of nutrition that actually gives us sustenance, [and] also better health. We also look at the production systems and how these become resilient in order to make sure that they absorb any shocks [there] might be for the industry. But it is also a day around which we raise a lot of awareness among our communities about the importance of food, and those who produce it, and how it is produced.”

Wendy Pekeur from Ubuntu Rural Women engaging with minister Thoko Didiza during her recent visit to the De Meul Community Centre in Citrusdal in the Western Cape. Photo: Supplied/Food For Mzansi
Wendy Pekeur from Ubuntu Rural Women engaging with minister Thoko Didiza during her recent visit to the De Meul Community Centre in Citrusdal in the Western Cape. Photo: Supplied/Food For Mzansi

This year, World Food Day was preceded by the International Day for Rural Women, which is why the celebrations in the Cederberg were focused on the contributions of women to the agricultural sector.

“A majority of these [rural] women are workers in rural industries, such as agriculture and agribusinesses. It is a majority of those women who actually are the producers of all the agricultural commodities that we eat; that we export. It is because of their sweat and labour that we actually recognise the contribution of our sector.”

The minister also acknowledged the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the agricultural sector, and the role of farmworkers in keeping the sector alive.

“These women and men braved their lives and the lives of their families, and actually ensured that South Africans and communities in the Southern African region are able to have food and fibre.”

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Nicole Ludolph

Born and bred in Cape Town, Nicole Ludolph is always telling a story. After a few years doing this and that, she decided that she might as well get paid for her stories. Nicole began her journalism career writing science articles for learner magazine Science Stars and interning at Getaway Magazine.

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