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Annie Sibindi Muronda, a disruptive manufacturing entrepreneur with a big vision — Lionesses of Africa

After an 8 year career in financial services Annie left to follow her true passion of building a disruptive, African manufacturing company in 2014. Under Annie’s leadership, Rufaro Garments has built a vertically integrated end to end manufacturing capability supported by bespoke distribution of uniforms through brick and mortar and online outlets. Rufaro Garments has […]

Devroll Legodi – African Farming

VEGETABLESDevroll Legodi, Bronkhorstspruit, Gauteng We are in the middle of harvesting spinach and green beans. We grow a variety of vegetables and herbs but our dominant crops this season are spinach and green beans. We should have started harvesting the spinach in September as we planted in May, but we were hit by late frost […]

Partnerships that work – African Farming

Thanks to a major investment by SA Breweries (SAB), the Moletele community now boasts a lime orchard project, in which they are the majority shareholder in partnership with the Komati Group. Along with SAB, the new company planted the first lime trees on a 60ha development at their Richmond Kopano Farm at Hoedspruit last December. […]

Mlungisi Bushula – African Farming

FORESTRYMlungisi Bushula, Stutterheim, Eastern Cape In our forestry operation, we are currently harvesting pine trees that have reached full maturity at 30 years. Silviculture is ongoing in the younger tree plantations, where we are pruning, weeding and cleaning up the rows. We have pine, gum and wattle in our operation. Pine trees take about 30 […]