Redaksie | Editorial
Dit is die strorie van Charl Senekal,
wat as suikertegnoloog begin werk
het en maandeliks sy volle salaris
gespaar het om sy eerste 45 ha
grond in 1978 te koop. Gedurende
dié tyd het hulle slegs van sy vrou
se salaris geleef. Hierdie familieboerdery het gegroei tot 30 000
hektaar vandag, wat nie net vir al
vier hul kinders werksgeleenthede
geskep het nie, maar ook vir 1200
permanente werknemers. Read this
2002 National Farmer of the Year’s
own story on page 10 of this issue
and be inspired.
This issue also features the first in a
series of articles on reptiles. Tim
Vorster of Cape Town Snake Park is
passionate about reptiles and
shares his knowledge on these fascinating creatures, often feared
and destroyed because of misconceptions or a lack of knowledge.
The musician Trevor Rabin once
said: “I don't mind snakes. Growing
up in South Africa there were a
couple a snakes around... and I'm
not talking just about the government!”, which makes one wonder
which ones are more dangerous?
Ons het ook baie goeie nuus vir
mense wat sukkel met daardie
kwaai hoofpyne na ‘n glasie wyn.
Ek is allergies vir swael en kon vir
byna vier jaar glad nie wyn drink
nie. - een slukkie wyn, en my bors
trek heeltemal toe. So knoop ek ‘n
paar maande gelede ‘n geselsie
aan met een van die bestuurders
in ons plaaslike winkel “net om die
hoek” toe ek navraag wou doen
oor ‘n spesifieke soort asyn wat ek
wel kan gebruik. Ek vertel hom van
my allergie vir swael, en hoe ek
versigtig moet wees met wat ek
eet omdat so baie goed swael bevat. Ek noem toe ook net so terloops dat ek ook gladnie wyn kan
drink nie waarop hy my vertel van
‘n spesifieke wyn op hul rakke wat
geen toegevoegde swael bevat
nie.
I immediately made a U-turn with
my trolley and headed for the
wine section, where I bought myself a bottle. On arrival at home, I
poured myself a glass and carefully
took a tiny sip… and then another… and then I took a bigger sip…
and nothing, no coughing, no
closed-up chest, just the wonderful taste of a good red wine. I
slowly appreciated the nectar of
the gods, relishing every sip and
patiently awaited the headache
which, mercifully, never appeared!
Then I realised what I had been
missing. I turned to our good friend
Google and found that there are a
number of South African Wineries
producing ‘No Added Sulphur’
wines. Ek klink graag ‘n glasie saam
met julle op bladsy 45, Gesondheid!!
In Agri Kombuis/Kitchen is daar ‘n
resep vir “Beef Olives”, so genoem
omdat ‘n dun gesnyde vleisie om ‘n
vulsel gerol word, wat dan soos ‘n
gevulde olyf lyk. Die vulsel wat ons
gebruik het, sluit uiteraard, gekapte
olywe in. Ongelukkig is daar nie ‘n
manier om die smaak op ‘n foto vas
te vang nie. Jy sal dus self hierdie
resep moet beproef, en ek glo dat
jy sal saamstem dat hierdie gereg
baie lekkerder ís as wat sy Afrikaanse naam, Blindevinke, suggereer!
Tot ‘n volgende keer,
Gerda
BLINDE VINK?
MADLINE KRIEL
The United Nations declared 2014
the International Year of Family
Farming. In South Africa we have
many farmers with a family farming history going back more than
seven generations on the same
farm, but we would like to share
the story of someone who didn’t
inherit a family farm, but had a
dream and the determination to
make that dream come true.