‘There’s help here’: meet the female farmer giving a ‘voice’ to other deaf tillers
Voice Out Deaf, one of the five farming co-operatives based at the Bekkersdal Agri Park, met Gauteng agriculture MEC Vuyiswa Ramokgopa during her engagement at the site
14 August 2024 - 05:16
It wasn't necessarily a passion for farming that drew Faith Mola and Philani Motha to Bekkersdal AgriPark's only co-operative farming group for deaf farmers, but rather a desire to gain meaningful employment and earn a decent salary in spite of their disability...
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