Growing a New Crop of Successful Commercial Farmers

Future Farmers Foundation  is a  small dedicated foundation located in KwaZulu-Natal  that provides platforms from which young men in agriculture and farming in general can become successful commercial farm managers or farmers in their own right. An apprenticeship system has been put in place to accommodate school leavers who are unable to attend universities.

They recently held the first of their  “Day of Talks” for the year  at the Pietermaritzburg Chamber of commerce.

Here are two accounts of the activities of the day.

Caption: Sifiso Ntshisa - Dairy Manager (above)

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Beguiled by our New Awesome South Africa

Karen de Villiers, a South African living in London writes for The South African newspaper and runs a business called Londongreenafrica and a website called London/Green/Africa . She met with Di Smith, a co-founder of Awesome SA over the Christmas break and had this to say about Awesome SA and the book Di wrote called You’re Awesome – Living a Fulfilled Life, which has recently been released.

Di Smith co-founded Awesome SA with Derryn Campbell in 2006 in a bid to promote peaceful change in South Africa. The bloom of a new democracy was wilting with renewed suspicion and die hard prejudice creeping in between the cracks. All was not well in the house of prejudiced South Africans. Talking was easy, complaining even more so, and with Awesome SA, Di and Derryn decided to call all South African's toward a new commitment.

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