Young people are being trained in regenerative methods of growing food just outside East London, delivering food security to those who need it most: rural households.But the dream does not end there.
Former landscape architect and president of Avant Gardening and Landscaping, Liza Lightfoot, established a charity organisation, Kidlinks Small Farm Incubator (KSFI) in 2004 which was initially motivated by the affect of HIV/Aids on children in SA and then expanded into grooming young farmers in the Eastern Cape.
Kelebogile Motswatswa.
In his autobiography
Still Grazing, South African jazz extraordinaire Hugh Masekela’s recollection of a bygone monolith moved me in ways I can’t even begin to enunciate.
What particularly struck a nerve were his reflections on the conditions during the Apartheid regime under which miners, in his hometown, Witbank, worked – and the homes to which they returned: no land, no family; they were forced to participate in a migrant labour system that caused the disintegration of many Black families.
Reading Masekela’s book got me thinking: how can White South Africans tell me to get over Apartheid when it dehumanised my people in such unbelievable ways? The callousness and lack of empathy is bewildering, to say the least.