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Study Financial Management online
Future farmers, are you seeking an online course that will help you grow a profitable farming business? Improve your financial management skills with Buhle online! * Designed for farmers of every level of skill, from novice to experienced.* Start when you are ready and study from home. * Apply lessons directly to your agribusiness. Enroll […]
Buhle honoured to receive Isaac Motaung Award
The Buhle Farmers’ Academy is honoured to have received the inaugural Isaac Motaung Award, in memory of an inspiring South African. Mr Motaung was a businessman and humanitarian with a keen interest in and thorough understanding of cattle farming. A former HR director of Pick ‘n Pay, Mr Motaung was also a trustee of the […]
Apply now for Farmer Support Officer position
Buhle Famers’ Academy seeks a Farmer Support Officer to join our team. This dynamic, knowledgeable and creative person will be responsible for supporting and advising farmers to manage viable farming businesses. Responsibilities Apply effective post-training support services to farmers and alumni of the Academy. Grow smallholder farms through Financial and Business management of farms. Continuously […]
Future farmers, here are our revised course dates for 2020
A note to all the aspiring farmers of Southern Africa: If you’re keen to study at Buhle this year, our campus is open again and operating according to a revised timetable, following the delays caused by Covid19. In the second half of 2020 we will be offering Grain Crop, Poultry and Vegetable Production. Download the […]
Buhle graduates’ story and video in Drum
“Teamwork is one of their greatest strengths,” says this story in Drum magazine about Buhle graduate ‘Tumelo’ Michael Zitha and the other five members of the successful Ithuba Capital Agricultural Primary Cooperative Ltd. The co-op was also featured in a Nation In Conversation video below, which was posted on the Drum story site. The six […]
Santam video features Buhle’s farm and campus
The “This is My Santam” video, about Santam’s commitment to placing people at the heart of its transformation journey, opens and closes with shots of the Buhle Farmers’ Academy fields and working farm, with quotes from one of our graduates. “When you think of a farmer, I”m not what you expect … I’m not just going […]
Buhle featured in Brimstone M&G supplement
Buhle was featured in this Mail and Guardian supplement of 15 February 2019, as one beneficiary of the Brimstone Investment Corporation’s BEST share-granting scheme. “At the Buhle Farmers’ Academy, those new to the agricultural sector can obtain the support they need to begin a self-sustaining farming enterprise,” the story explains. “Buhle provides sustained support, including […]
Letter from our CEO, Nyiko Maluleke
Growth and new ventures A warm thanks to every one of our funders for making Buhle’s work possible. Your support enabled us to train 592 new farmers and visit 220 farmers to support them on their own farms in 2018. We also gained several new funders last year. Welcome to Sasol, Nedbank and Santam. We are […]
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 […]