Healer on a mission to preserve ways of traditional African religion in an when foreign influences
continue to encourage the spurning of the old ways
Mukurukuru Media
The scramble for minerals in rural areas is transforming communities that once lived on subsistence farming into messy dumps grappling with pollution of water sources and destruction of grazing and ploughing lands.
‘Crossing the border illegally into South Africa was like a Sunday afternoon stroll for Shaolin Masache. A customs official at the Beit Bridge border post arranged for Masache to get a gate pass after accepting a bribe of R100, which he shared with a police officer on duty at the border post. Masache, 28, walked into South Africa without a passport…He arrived in the farming town of Waterpoort in the Northern Province two days later after a punishing 90km walk…
He is only 27 years old but already Mpho Mpfuni owns two farms with a combined size of 22
hectares and processes the organic chillies grown on the farm to produce a sauce that’s now
in retail stores in three different provinces.
Agro- processing remains in the hands of big business but Limpopo entrepreneur and farmer
Tebogo Maepa decided to take the road less travelled when she ventured into the business
of cherry pepper production.
Maepa who leads the 100% black female owned Deutronomeo co-operative which is also
known as DEU foods was recently crowned the Top Female Entrepreneur in the Female
Farmer of the Year awards under the processing category at the local, district and provincial
levels.
WHEN the women of Motloulela realised the despair caused by unemployment in their village – they decided to do something.