BETWEEN TAXIS AND CABBAGES
From taxi driver to successful farmer
Siphosihle Maseko drove his uncle’s taxi until he saved enough money and started farming with green maize on two hectares in 2020. From March to December last year he produced about 15 000 cabbages per month (he wants to increase it this year), and he supplies both formal and informal markets, writes SINENHLANHLA NGWENYA.
BETWEEN TAXIS AND CABBAGES
From taxi driver to successful farmer
Siphosihle Maseko drove his uncle’s taxi until he saved enough money and started farming with green maize on two hectares in 2020. From March to December last year he produced about 15 000 cabbages per month (he wants to increase it this year), and he supplies both formal and informal markets, writes SINENHLANHLA NGWENYA.
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DESPITE growing up in the agricultural heartland of Keiskammahoek in the Eastern Cape, it took the death of his beloved mother in 2014 to inspire Siphosihle Maseko to pursue farming, his true calling.
Today, his 10ha farm is thriving, but Maseko still remembers the tough times after his mother’s death when he was struggling to make ends meet. His mother, Xoliswa Maseko, lived off a Sassa grant, and he suddenly also had to take care of his grandmother, Ntombomzi Maseko.
“I started the farm because of the hunger,” he admits...
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Volgende artikelSinenhlanhla Ngwenya
JournalistNgwenya is a writer for Food for Mzansi.