’n Refleksie oor die huidige uitdagings van graanprodusente: kompleksiteit, aanpassing, keuse en hoop
Ons was die afgelope week by nog ’n familieboerdery besig om strategies die realiteit te definieer en saam te dink oor die toekoms. Ek het net weer besef hoe kompleks die wêreld van landbou...
Om raak te skiet en mis te boor
Beste Grootneef
Vra maar vir Naas Botha, die verskil tussen ’n hero en ’n zero is soms so dik soos ’n polonieskil. ’n Menigte van sy skepskoppe is maar net-net tussen die pale deur. Effe...
’n Silwer randjie
Beste Grootneef
Die roet en as van die onlangse plundertogte in die groen land van Natal het dalk gaan lê, maar baie vrae hang steeds in die lug. Hoe op aarde? Waarom? Is die vuur...
Progessing from subsistence to profit
To the Grain SA/Standard Bank Smallholder Farmer of the Year for 2022, Joseph Tuelo Mokaleng (54), agriculture means life. He grew up in a rural area where the community was dependent on agriculture to...
Farming = life
‘Investments in agriculture are the best weapons against hunger and poverty – they have made life better for billions of people.’ These words were spoken by the American business magnate, Bill Gates, who doubled...
Knowledge offers the potential to change lives
The 2019 Potential Commercial Farmer of the Year is Sabatha Ewart Mthethwa from Dannhauser in KwaZulu-Natal. As everyone knows, it takes a team to make a winner and Sabatha has a whole team supporting...
Mentoring is a great way to keep learning
Dulce Ruby, the founder of the blog Soul Traveler, said that the beautiful thing about life is that we will never reach an age where there is nothing left to learn, see or be....
An opportunity to grow, connect, and inspire
Nkosana Mtimkulu (41), a finalist in the 2025 Potential Commercial Farmer of the Year category, was not born into farming, but ‘built’ his way into it. Growing up, he was inspired by his parents’...
Die onsigbare kleed
Beste Grootneef
Ek het laat middag my arm skoon uit sy potjie gepluk, maar kon nie ’n kuggie uit die gennie se keelgat lostrek nie. Iets is verstop, want die Honda se tenk is nog...
