Tag: Female farmer

Statistics South Africa’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey for the fourth quarter of 2020 paints a gloomy picture related to the country's unemployment status.  This week, Agri SA labour specialist Lebohang Sethusha joins Farmer's Inside ...

Happy Family Day, Mzansi! Get your calendars out and take note of this week’s  agriculture  events that are taking place throughout South Africa, as well as online to be accessed from the ...

The 25-year-old Annalea van Niekerk is a force to be reckoned with. She certainly isn’t what you would first image when you think of a stud farmer. And on tonight's ...

It’s not easy being a female farmer in the boy’s club of agriculture, but 62-year-old Mahadi Mopeli is not easily deterred. The story of this librarian-turned-farmer is told in tonight's ...

They say men are from Mars, but have you heard about Alfreda? Alfreda Mars, the inspirational grain and sheep farmer who has been breaking all sorts of barriers in the ...

Growing up in the village of Ga-Mokgopo in Limpopo, Keneilwe Raphesu (23) had always loved the adventure in rural living. There was a sense of freedom that she clung on ...

Lone Wolf, from Hertzogville in the Free State writes… I am 29, single, straight, run a 200-hectare cattle operation and I am honestly fulfilled by it. The last time I ...

“Are you listening?” livestock farmer Matshidiso “Boer Bae” Parage (24) asks enthusiastically. “The cattle are lowing! They are lowing!” she shouts over the phone drowning out the loud bellowing from ...

The sight of hundreds of cattle stampeding towards you may sound like the start of a nightmare for some. Imagine having no escape as you quiver at the thought of ...

The relationship between a farmer and their livestock is almost sacred, believes 22-year-old Tsaone Gaseitshubelwe. Along with her father, Tebogonyane (53) and three brothers, she farms on the communal lands ...