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How Entrepreneurs can Identify, Fund and Launch their Best Ideas by Alice Bentinck and Max Clifford — Lionesses of Africa

Book Review How to Be a Founder, by Alice Bentinck and Max Clifford, is an essential guide to equip the next generation of business founders with the mindset and tools they need to take the leap to become globally successful entrepreneurs. Featuring a foreword by Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, How to Be a Founder: […]

What you need to know – African Farming

Extension officers play a key role in the agricultural sector. They offer advice to farmers on how to farm both profitably and sustainably. Praveen Dwarika, Managing Director of Afgri’s Lemang Agricultural Services is back at Vastfontein Training Academy to discuss this topic. Source link

Message of Condolence/Message de Condoléances

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Sihle Maseko – African Farming

August signals the end of winter and a time farmers can look forward to the start of the new season. A busy time as herds and flocks are calving and lambing, or they are just about to do so. It is also a time for strategising and planning for breeding and planting. VEGETABLES Sihle Maseko, […]

Gerswin Louw (FULL EPISODE) – African Farming

Gerswin Louw was the right man for commercial farmer Schalk Viljoen to bring in as a shareholder in Dasberg Farming, an agricultural transformation project in the Riviersonderend district of the Overberg. Livestock manager Gerswin has a solid background in sheep that he continuously grows while building his farming experience and his leadership skills. Gerswin says […]

Katishi Ngoepe – African Farming

SWEET POTATOES Katishi Ngoepe, Ga-Malope, Limpopo I plant and grow beetroot, potatoes, and sweet potatoes on a one-hectare plot. I sell my vegetables informally in the village and in neighbouring villages. I have just planted the sweet potatoes and will start harvesting them in four to six months. The crop we’ve just put in will […]

Black quarter is preventable – African Farming

Consider the case of an animal health professional called out because a farmer’s year-old heifer has just died, and another animal looks listless with a swollen shoulder and slight lameness – the same symptoms presented by the dead heifer. These are the signs of black quarter. The painful truth is that the disease can be […]