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In recent years, the Philippi Horticultural Area Food and Farming Campaign has been in the news because of its legal challenges to the plans of property developers to convert parts of the Philippi Horticultural Area into housing and commercial development. Together with Stellenbosch University doctoral student Matthew Wingfield, who is doing research on the Philippi Horticultural Area, I recently met the Philippi Horticultural Area Food and Farming Campaign’s founder, Nazeer Sonday, in an empty field next to a primary school in Grassy Park, where he grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. We wanted to know more about his upbringing and whether this had influenced his vocation as an environmental activist and organic farmer. ....
Lockdown validated 10 years of PHA Food & Farming Campaign work By Opinion by Nazeer A Sonday The year 2020 will be remembered for the coronavirus pandemic and a lockdown that closed down the city. Just two years before, 2018 will go down in our memory for dry taps and Day Zero. Throughout both crises, the Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA) foodlands proved to be worth their weight in gold as an essential part of the city’s well-being. Foodlands is a word born out of the struggle to protect the PHA. It means: “Urban/peri-urban farmlands and farming communities growing horticultural crops of high nutritional, medicinal, and ecosystem value, with short supply chain from the plaas to the plate.” ....