Cape Town woman started with just three pigs and now has 30, along with her independence.
Former security guard Noncedo Khawuleza-Ndzawuse started farming three years ago with only three pigs. Today she has 30.
Khawuleza-Ndzawuse says she quit her security guard job to earn more money and spend more time with her family.“It was not healthy for me. I would come back [home] and head straight to bed. I missed important family events, and I could not make time for my kids.” Khawuleza-Ndzawuse bought three pigs to start the Ithemba Farm in Faure, where she has a shack and a big piece of land. Today, the 41-year-old mother of three has 30 pigs. She sells the pork mostly to vendors of braai meat.“I saw an opportunity selling pigs. They grow easily and are not complicated to farm.” Her clients are business people who own tshisanyama, mainly in Mfuleni and Khayelitsha.
“It is better to be your own boss than work for someone else,” she says. She learnt about farming from her late grandfather in the Eastern Cape, who used to take her with him to attend to his livestock. Ndzawuse says she feeds the pigs twice a day. Her challenge, she says, is access to water. There is no water on her plot and she has to fetch water by car from taps several kilometres away. She and her two employees slaughter the animals themselves and take the carcasses to a nearby butchery for slicing.“In order to make money you need to get dirty, and love what you are doing,” she advises.
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