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 when 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,”…
