How black and white farmers are coming together

“I’ve seen how farmers are willing to help. But unfortunately these good stories don’t travel as quickly.”

And they’re making it work with a R25 million a year operational budget and managing a further R120 million worth of projects on a farming development programme that is changing lives. Driven by their belief to use farming to heal South Africa rather than divide it, Grain SA sponsors mobile units that travel into the most rural communities to offer clinics to teach skills, such as welding, grinding and painting, as well as how to service a tractor or repair farm equipment.

They travel by bakkie deep into these communities with the sole aim of helping an old black woman, barely surviving on 1 ton of maize a year from her 1ha of land, and using their science and expertise to make that same piece of land yield up to 8 tons of maize a year. “One old woman told me she bought herself a bed. She’d never slept on a bed in her life. Another bought a fridge and another new school uniforms for her kids. That’s how farming alleviates poverty.

There's no such thing ur pushing for the land not to be taken

Nice1

Imagine what they could do if the government and political parties stopped interfering and creating umcertainty

I believe this is a great achievement for South Africans, our great farmers helping those in need, even when the public turns a blind eye on them and their families when they are in need, as well as the spreading of bad influence against the farmers and having them get murdered.

You only found this out now? Must have been a slow day as this is happening forever...

They are teaching black people how to farm but refusing to return their land. And Y'all celebrating this nonsense.

nielkraai3000 No good deed will go unpunished.

Considering that SA farmers are among the best in the world, why did Zwane took his church choir to India to learn how to farm. Government should exploit the skills of our white farmers. Problem is that they want to help but is their the political will to involve them?

Another BEE?

ntsikimazwai Just what I like to see

DanniTwiet Am i fooling myself 🤔

Fantastic!!

StrongerTogether

Has AdvBarryRoux and EFFSouthAfrica seen this? That should make their day for sure!

A good example is better than a sermon. Oh! Our SA white farmers are our leaders. We need to follow their lead. Big up, to SA farmers!

Fake knews who are tryin to fool.... expropriation of land without compensation will be done you like it or not

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When is Julius_S_Malema coming to do you know what to them?

Whites helping the black farmers . But do you think black farmers will help whites

Thanks

United we stand

Now that is called progress in the new South Africa

Private people doing more and more effectively than MYANC government

Now that we want our land back we must 'come together,' where was the 'coming together' in 1930 when the natives land act was passed

We require more of these interventions among our communities. They should be capacitated to grow food to eat and also sell to others. This programme by Grain South Africa is highly laudable. It should be supported and expanded in all the nine provinces of SA.

This is very good however we will not be distructed, we still want the land yobaba Mkhulu.

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