Starting with just 15 ha of communal land, Botlhale Tshabalala has built a thriving grain enterprise on approximately 200 ha of scattered, unfenced fields around Itsoseng in North West, earning the 2025 Grain SA New Era Commercial Farmer of the Year award. From a disastrous first sunflower crop in 2013, he expanded one field at a time, secured production finance through NWK, joined the Grain SA/Kgodiso Development Fund programme, and adopted com…
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