Black farmer in Senekal: When I started, everyone thought I was crazy

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[ICYMI] Mothonyana Monaheng became a farmer even though when he was growing up on a farm in the Free State, he experienced & saw workers, including his father, toil for long hours, be ill-treated, abused and at the end of the day, receive meagre pay.

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Senekal - Mothonyana Monaheng became a farmer even though when he was growing up on a farm in the Free State, he experienced and saw how workers, including his father, toiled for long hours, were ill-treated, abused and at the end of the day, received meagre pay.

“I recall how I used to tell the owner I once worked for to never swear at me like he did to the others because I knew I could not take it. When I left, things got really bad for those that remained. But they couldn’t do anything about it because they needed the money. I needed the money too but I refused to take the humiliation. So I left,” he said, adding he doesn’t believe working conditions for farm workers will get better any time soon.

Monaheng’s decision to take up farming was partly to liberate himself from abuse and oppression and to go the entrepreneurial route by growing his own crops and to start a family business for the future. The bet on his future was made, it cost him money to hire municipality trucks, various sacrifices, and a plan; a plan to be recognised as one of Free State’s most established farmers, no matter what that looked like.

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