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Highveld Harvest: The Road to Joburg HIGHVELDHARVEST HIGHVELDHARVEST The Road to Joburg

Grow it. Load the bakkie. Sell it in Joburg.

Pay off Gogo's R12 000 loan in 30 days.

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The farmer stands on the stoep of Gogo Nomsa's farmhouse at dawn, with a dog nearby. The to-do note says: harvest Gogo's spinach.
05:15

Read the paper before you plant

05:30

Six fields at Thandanani

Three fields in late afternoon light: tomato plants, a field of cabbages and freshly tilled soil. Bush covers the ground where field 5 can be cleared for R1 300.

  • Tomatoes 4 days

  • Spinach 2 days

  • Cabbages 3 days

  • Butternut 5 days

  • Potatoes 5 days

  • Green mielies 4 days

05:40

Keep left, mind the potholes

Driving the white bakkie down a two-lane road toward the Joburg skyline, past pylons and acacia trees. The HUD reads Thandanani to City Deep Market, 0 bumps.

Every pothole you hit bruises a crate.

06:45

Sell to an agent, or haggle it yourself

The farmer beside the bakkie in the market car park. Behind them are the orders board, stacked crates and the price board.

  • ! 4 crates of cabbage for R78 each?

    Spaza shop owner

  • Grade A only. 3 crates of tomatoes, R150 each?

    Restaurant chef

  • ! 5 crates of potatoes, R96 each?

    Cross-border trader

  • 3 crates of spinach. I can pay R70 a crate.

    Street hawker

08:00

Make friends with the other farmers

Oom Koos van Wyk

Tomatoes, from Tzaneen, Limpopo

18:30

R12 000 by day 30

Pay it and the farm is yours.

20:00

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