PICS – ‘Unsung heroes’ continue to produce our food

Phetesane “Ou Dawid” Sello talks while he works, with his gaze fixed on the tools between his palms and his hands moving in continuous rhythm. Neither breaks, not even when he laughs. “I’ve been doing this for 42 years,” the 68-year-old grandfather said this week from behind a workbench at Karookom – a mixed use operation in the Free State where Sello is the foreman.

He is one of the “unsung heroes” to whom President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday paid tribute for working through the national lockdown to keep the country’s wheels turning while it works to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. “I wake up at 5am every day, except Sundays. On Sundays, I sleep in until 7am and then I go to church and spend time with my family,” he said.

The lockdown has also forced apart Simon Budaza Mokara and his young family. “I have a wife and two children, girls. They’re in Orkney,” the 41-year-old said this week. “I miss them already. But I carry them with me.” Japie Grobler has owned Karookom since the 1970s. This week he echoed the president’s sentiments. He said modern commercial farming demanded skill and technical expertise from farmers and farm workers alike and that they were completely reliant on one another.“We’re like family. And we appreciate each other now more than ever. We all understand the position the country is in and we’re all in it together.

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