Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Video from Rolfes Agri captures graduation joy
Thanks to our supporter Rolfes Agri for this fabulous video capturing our farming students’ joy and huge sense of achievement at our summer graduation ceremony this year.
Buhle seeks Administrative Intern
Buhle Famers’ Academy seeks to appoint a vibrant Administrative Intern for six months to assist the team based in Delmas. Buhle Farmers’ Academy (BFA) is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to train new and aspiring farmers from across South Africa to manage farming businesses that are both profitable and sustainable and to help […]
Food for Mzansi interviews Zamo on farmer empowerment
In this Food for Mzansi story our Executive Director, Zamo Shongwe, explains how Buhle equips new farmers with everything they need to make their land productive, in crucial step for successful land reform.
Nyiko’s input on land reform in Business Day
Our CEO, Nyiko Maluleke, gives Business Day his opinion on the latest developments in land reform. Farmers need land, training and support, he says. “If all the parties remain committed, there is a good chance of a turnaround.”
Buhle appears on Danish TV
Thank you to the Danish TV station TV Avisen for this video on Buhle’s work in empowering new farmers. “Those people who receive the land must receive skills to farm it, so that their farms can become economically viable,” our CEO Nyiko Maluleke told the TV station. “Within a short space of time I feel […]
Sandvelder Kontrei – “Buhle helps new farmers to build perseverance”
Thank you to Die Sandvelder Kontrei en Landboutydskrif for publishing a second story on Buhle. This one, in their most recent edition, is all about how perserverance helps new farmers to reap success. Read the story on Sandvelder August 2018.
Livestock bursaries: limited time offer
Are you keen on gaining the skills you need to farm livestock – cattle, sheep, goats and / or pigs – but concerned about the cost? Buhle Farmers’ Academy is offering bursaries to three young women for our next livestock course, 9 July – 14 September, at our campus in Delmas, Mpumalanga. To qualify: […]
eNCA video on Buhle’s role in Land Reform
For Land Reform to succeed, new farmers need to the gain farming skills that will enable them to run financially sustainable operations. Government needs to ensure that this skills development takes place. So says our new CEO Nyiko Maluleke in this eNCA video featuring Buhle, how we fulfill the skills development gap and, especially, our […]
“The 26-year-old female farmer shattering stereotypes”
Watch Lerato Senakhomo, a 2017 Star of Buhle, tell her own story and see for yourself how her farm is thriving, in this News24 video about how she overcame the odds to become a successful farmer.
Sandvelder Kontrei – “The Future Grows at Buhle”
Thanks to Sandvelder Kontrei en Landboutydskrif, @sandvelderonline.co.za, for this fabulous spread – “The Future Grows at Buhle.” We feel privileged to be featured of your positive and inspiring magazine about agriculture and country life. Buhle was delighted to host you, and very pleased you had such a positive impression of our working farm, training academy and […]