That is approximately 7 million rands gone down the drain, after loosing over 300 million rands.
This is why politicians should say stay very far away from business. Especially farming.
They must stick to making great speeches and quoting great authors 🚮
If people knew how much I HATE ALCOHOL!!! Shoutout to @PennyLebyane for this piece... very sober 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Alcohol is the most dangerous drug on earth, that has caused the most harm, yet people celebrate it... tragic 💔
From Opening Access to Growing an Economy🌱
Khula! @khulaecosystem is changing the game for SA farmers, and now they’ve raised R126M* to scale even further. In this conversation, Karidas Tshintsholo breaks down the journey, the challenges, and what’s next.
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In my mind right now is the plight of the #UnemployedAgricGraduates almost 5000 of them! Sitting at home when there is MASSIVE NEED for their services. The so called GNU is punishing our people!
In my mind right now is the plight of the #UnemployedAgricGraduates almost 5000 of them! Sitting at home when there is MASSIVE NEED for their services. The so called GNU is punishing our people!
In my mind right now is the plight of the #UnemployedAgricGraduates almost 5000 of them! Sitting at home when there is MASSIVE NEED for their services. The so called GNU is punishing our people!
In my mind right now is the plight of the #UnemployedAgricGraduates almost 5000 of them! Sitting at home when there is MASSIVE NEED for their services. The so called GNU is punishing our people!
This is not just about economic stagnation. It’s about systemic arrest of black adulthood. The inability of young black South Africans to progress into traditional milestones of adulthood (marriage, homeownership, family-building) is not just a personal failing or bad luck, it's an engineered condition The cycle of economic hardship delays independence, disrupts generational wealth transfer, and forces perpetual dependence on precarious labor markets.
Think about it: in a functional economy, people move through different phases of life. But when economic power is deliberately restricted— through low wages, high unemployment, and expensive property markets—people remain trapped in the performance of adulthood without the material reality of it. The constant discussions about ‘who cooks,’ ‘who pays,’ and ‘relationship roles’ become a substitute for real-world responsibilities like running a household, negotiating lobola, or financing a child’s education.
It’s also a direct consequence of land dispossession and financial gatekeeping. The older generation had at least some access to land, lower costs of living, and stable jobs. Today, the economy forces young black people into long-term renting, casual work, and delayed wealth accumulation. The result? A culture that is stuck debating teenage-level relationship dynamics because the infrastructure for full adulthood—land, property, and capital is systematically out of reach.
This is neo-colonial control through economic infantilization. Keeping young black people in a state of extended adolescence ensures they don’t become a serious economic or political force. It keeps them distracted, dependent, and frustrated, debating trivialities instead of mobilizing for radical economic change.
NEWS: A whistleblower in the Kokstad area has written to the Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, and pleaded with him to investigate allegations of corruption regarding the leasing of a lucrative and well-positioned state farm known as Troutwaters.
The farm is located in Kokstad on the border between KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape - an area known for cattle and sheep farming.
According to the leaked whistleblower's letter which was written to Steenhuisen on 11 December 2024, an allegedly corrupt official from the Department of Agriculture responsible for the Harry Gwala district (which covers Kokstad) in KwaZulu-Natal, chaired a panel that interviewed farmers who applied to have the farm leased to them and keep it productive.
The official allegedly sent the winning person interview questions in advance, but the person still failed to notch the top spot. Despite that, he dubiously scored the lucrative lease that comes with state support perks.
In the end, the lease was awarded to the person who had no farming experience and is allegedly a personal friend of the departmental official. The person who is from Bhongweni township in Kokstad is also allegedly politically connected to a senior ANC leader who serves in the KwaZulu-Natal top five structure.
After the lease was concluded under a cloud, the winning person allegedly opened up the farm to the said ANC leader to keep some of his herd of cattle without paying a cent in rent - and that raised eyebrows - The News Box
The industry has a lot of interest already even from people who have no background of it so we honestly cannot all be entrepreneurs. There is a need for more feet on the ground providing support & information on behalf of @DOAgov_ZA @TreasuryRSA #UnemployedAgricPractitioners