Tag: Youth Month

In this moving piece, Magnificent Mndebele and photographer Funiwe Ngwenya reflect on the life of one of South Africa’s oldest farmers who died at 96. Mahlomelane Mthembu defied all odds ...

For FarmSol, guiding farmers towards sound soil management practices is crucial. Aron Kole, managing director of the company, says that this helps to build resilient farming businesses. Ensuring that farmers ...

Every Friday, we introduce you to a different young farmer who has grown their enterprises with the help of the prestigious farmer development programme. This week, we travel to the ...

The prediction by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) that an additional 130 million could be pushed into chronic hunger during 2020 by the Covid-19 pandemic seems to ...

Farmsol Youth Ambassador and Free State farmer Mokete Johannes Mofokeng is making great strides through sheer tenacity. In celebration of Youth Month, we feature some of the rising farm stars ...

North West farmer Mirriam Kgopa reinvested the profit from her very first sunflower harvest back into growing her business. In celebration of Youth Month, we feature some of the rising ...

Today, on the 45th anniversary of the Soweto uprising in 1976, we celebrate a diverse farmers’ crop who are committed to not only growing the agricultural sector, but moving South ...

“We have to actually listen to what young people, who are the future of this agricultural sector and agribusinesses, are saying to us.” These were the words of agriculture, land ...

FarmSol partners with South African Breweries to support over 520 smallholder grain farmers across seven provinces in South Africa, of which 65 are female. Aron Kole, managing director of FarmSol, ...

It’s FarmSol Friday, good people of Mzansi! This week, we travel to the Free State to meet farming brothers Gift and Molefi Nyambose. They are participating in the FarmSol Youth ...