The Mphithini Co-operative based near Donnybrook, is an enthusiastic group of farmers with whom we have been working since November 2019.

We are ecstatic to announce that we have been awarded section 18A tax income exemption which means that from this point onward, all donations made to our organisation are fully tax deductible!

Following the appearance of our article in local news about the efforts of the commercial farmers in our district to get food to the vulnerable during lockdown, we were invited to be interviewed by Joanne Joseph on Radio 702’s afternoon drive earlier this week.

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought enormous challenges for people across our country and the world over, but even more so for the unemployed who, under lockdown, have been unable to undertake the piecemeal jobs they require in order to put food on their tables and the elderly and frail who take great risk venturing out of their homes to collect their social grants in order to purchase food.

Mr Gehla Mngoma and his family continue to produce a brilliant crop of cabbages, potatoes and tomatoes but since the loan period ended for the demo tractors that Mascor provided, a replacement has been greatly needed.

Subsequent to a proposal put together by Mr Stapylton-Smith in consultation with Mr Ngcobo, the Agri-business Development Agency have funded a new 20-point swing-over dairy at Summerhill Farm which has been operational since the beginning of March.