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Former miners hit gold with poultry farming
gcis vuk uzenzele > By gcis vuk uzenzele - 23 July 2021 - 07:00
Chairperson of the Ubumbano Secondary Cooperative Mzimasi Sotyatho (left) shows off the cooperative s chickens to officials from Rand Mutual Assurance and the Eastern Cape Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform.
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Five former miners started a legacy agriculture project that not only aims to put food on tables, but to also stop their grandchildren from becoming mine labourers.
The men started the Ubumbano Secondary Cooperative in Gobothi village in Ngcobo, Eastern Cape, after falling on hard times when they left their jobs.
“We were faced with a lot of poverty in our families and we saw that the best way of ending this was to enter the agriculture sector,” says the cooperative’s Chairperson, Mzimasi Sotyatho (71). ....

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