Tag: Limpopo

INSPIRATION: There's a village outside Polokwane called Nobody, where everybody knows the "farmer from the north". Her name is Maphate Rakoma and she has soldiered through many setbacks to feed ...

When single mother Pheladi Madungandaba hit a rough patch early last year, she was forced to find a sustainable career to support her children. After some hard losses and hard ...

The farming bug bit Mahlatsi Manamela (39) when he was just 5 years old. Today, he farms with cotton, livestock and crops in a rural Limpopo village.

Municipalities across the country are collapsing due to maladministration, power struggles and corruption. In many of Mzansi's provinces, road infrastructure, water quality and service delivery in general are deteriorating, and ...

Solomon Makgato spends his weekdays as a salesperson at a Limpopo retailer. After hours and on weekends, he creates magic on his one-hectare backyard farm – even supplying a local ...

It was just for fun when serial entrepreneur Xitsakiso Baloyi tried out some recipes in his sister's kitchen during Covid-19 lockdown. But for “Mr Rabbit”, who has spent the past ...

Willing to play their part in the fight against Covid-19, farm owners in the Limpopo province are availing their farms as vaccination sites. They form part of a vaccination drive ...

The explosion that had caused extensive damage to the Medupi power station’s unit 4 generator on Sunday, may lead to load shedding from now until Christmas, even beyond the six ...

Fourteen years after Eskom started building its Medupi power station, it finally reached commercial operation status. Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean much for farmers who are at wits’ end with load ...

Eric Mauwane, a vegetable farmer from Gauteng, lost everything on what was described as the coldest night in Mzansi this year. A heartbroken Mauwane tells us, “Everything is gone. The ...