“When my father advised me to buy a goat in my early 20s I couldn’t have been more disinterested,” says farmer Zibuko Binqela. | DrumMagazine
At any given time, he is either wearing a suit and has an overall and boots in his car or vice versa.“When my father advised me to buy a goat in my early 20s I couldn’t have been more disinterested,” says farmer Zibuko Binqela.
He tells Drum his father had a few goats, cows and pigs in Ngqushwa while he lived in Gqeberha and making sure they were well maintained was a challenge. By profession he is a financial planner and sold an investment property because he wanted to go all in and see how great the return on investment would be.
He was initially buying the livestock to breed, then he realized there was huge demand for castrated goats because they are used for traditional ceremonies so he started buying them to sell them. “To run a farm effectively, it requires a lot of maintenance and money. Suddenly because of lockdown I was sitting with stock I could not use, I had to feed them while I was not making money from my day job because we were not earning an income because of Covid-19. My family had to live, so I had to sell my livestock.
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