Tag: Thabo Dithakgwe

How do farmers safeguard their animals from the threat of crop and livestock theft, which is ever-present in Mzansi? Farmers are at their wits end and sleeping with one eye ...

Farmers have been warned to brace themselves for a period of rapidly increasing animal feed and production costs, with the prices of some animal feed commodities at all-time record highs. ...

Perhaps the secret sauce to developing a long-lasting business relationship lies in teamwork, says Juan Louw, a Northern Cape sheep farmer. He grew his business after partnering with a friend ...

It’s Christmas time again and 2019 is finally drawing to a close! While many of us are relaxing with our loved ones, let’s spare a thought for the farmers and ...

Imagine waking up one morning and being told by your father that he’s appointing you as foreman over your family’s vegetable farm. You just turned 18 and are at the ...

We don’t want to start a fight, but well-known political analyst Prince Mashele could do with an urgent crash course in agriculture. We’re rather peeved after Mashele reportedly said that ...

“Farming is in me, it runs in my blood and my veins. I am a farmer by birth,” confidently declares Thabo Dithakgwe (19), one of South Africa’s youngest farmers. He ...