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Passionate about farming: Nonopa Tenza and her husband started Kevinot Farming to carry on a family legacy. Photo: Supplied

Farmer from Matatiele wins award for rural-based small business

What started as a side hustle for Nonopa Tenza ended up in her winning the 2022 Inaugural National Presidential Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises award

Gledhow Sugar Mill has become the latest sugar mill to enter into voluntary business rescue, piling pressure on the industry after a similar move by Tongaat Hulett in October.
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Regenerative farming is vital to ensure food security

World Environment Day encourages businesses, farmers and manufacturers to develop greener models — for people to consider how they consume

Grade 11 learner ( who wish to remain anonymous) from Onkgopotse Tiro Combine School has resorted in assisting in building his mother’s new home to keep busy and to learn in order to prepare himself for a civil engeneering course that he wants to persue when he finished school. Without any explanation from his school, he has been sitting at home since the beggining of the lockdown even though other learners from different schools have started attending. (Oupa Nkosi)

Farmworkers’ children forgotten

They have been unable to return to their school in North West because the hostel is closed

Feast at the farm

Danielle Strydom and Dany Krynauw serve yummy, mainly organic, food at their epicurean outings.

Leased farm dogs Chombo

Zimbabwean minister Ignatius Chombo has been implicated in another scandal involving land and this time his lawyer is part of it.

Ramphele worried SA farmers are lost ‘to the north’

It is “worrisome” that South Africa is losing many of its commercial farmers to countries to the north of it, Mamphela Ramphele has said.

Union happy with daily R100 wage for farmworkers – for now

The Food and Allied Workers Union says it expects the new minimum wage for farmworkers to be R100 a day that can later increase to R150.

Land claim against SA farmer dropped

The state decided to drop land claims by two different clans against the country’s biggest sugarcane farmer.