Past the tipping point
During the end of January, I read a few articles and contemplated a number of events in the agricultural sector and society in general. It seems to me as if we have moved past...
Verby die kantelpunt
Hier aan die einde van Januarie het ek ’n paar artikels gelees en oor ’n klompie gebeure in die landbousektor en in die algemene samelewing nagedink. Dis vir my so al asof ons met...
The paradox of 2021
This year's stop-start beginning is making life difficult for everyone. People were still trying to relax on holiday after a tough 2020, when COVID’s ‘My fellow South Africans’ stopped us dead in our tracks...
Die paradoks van 2021
Vanjaar se stop-start begin maak die lewe vir almal moeilik. Mense was nog besig om vakansie te probeer hou na ’n taai 2020-jaar, toe laat COVID se “My fellow South Africans” ons weer in...
Voorwaarts, al is dit opdraand
Teen die tyd dat julle hierdie lees, behoort die Kaapse oes afgehandel en die noorde se oes geplant te wees. Is dit nie lekker dat die reën mooi betyds gekom het nie?
’n Beter begin...
Onward, even if it’s uphill
By the time you are reading this, the Cape harvest should be completed and the crops in the north should be planted. Isn’t it just great that the rain has come in time?
We could...
This is who we are!
Who do you think you are?’ were the words our Minister of Police, General Bheki Cele, used to starkly address a farmer recently. I do not know the farmer and I am not aware...
Dis wie ons is!
Wie dink jy is jy?” was die woorde wat ons Minister van Polisie, Generaal Bheki Cele, ’n boer die ander dag toegesnou het. Ek ken nie die boer nie en weet nie presies wat...
This too shall pass
The other day, I attended a meeting about the loss people are experiencing in the time of COVID.
Experts talked about children who had no matric farewell and who could not experience the last school...
Dit sal ook verbygaan
Ek het nou die dag ’n byeenkoms bygewoon wat gehandel het oor die verlies wat mense in die COVID-tyd beleef.
Kundiges het gepraat oor kinders wat nie matriekafskeid kon hou nie en ook nie die...
