For the last 15 years, Mam Refiloe Molefe, known as Mam Refiloe, has tended to the soil at the Bertrams Inner City Farm, in inner-city Johannesburg. But now the two-hectare farm has been ordered to be closed immediately, its fields will be bulldozed and...
). It included both the City of Johannesburg and the Department of Social Development in its list of departments under investigation by the SIU in relation to allegations of corruption. An amount of R977-million spent by the DSD is being investigated. On this basis, the activists’ suspicions are justifiable and warrant careful scrutiny of the process to decide on and tender for the MPC.
The City of Johannesburg intends to build a R240-million rand Multipurpose Centre on this land. Although the City’s plans for the Centre have been in the pipeline for a number of years, there is no evidence of plans to maintain the food security role played by the garden during the construction.
Mam Refiloe is connected to a number of organisations in the area that provide support for children, homeless people, and others who cannot afford sufficient, healthy food. She runs an informal soup kitchen at the garden and supplies vegetables to several other community soup kitchens and feeding schemes through The People’s Pantry, an NGO that operates out of nearby Victoria Yards.
Through links to bicycle and walking tours, Mam Refiloe’s garden creates a space to educate visitors from other parts of the city and country, as well as international tourists, about healthy organic food and urban farming. She has hosted many corporate teams over the years, showing them the garden and preparing fresh, healthy meals from her produce.
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