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Buhle has an enormous grocery bill – feeding our
300 students per year is no small feat. We are literally running a hostel on our farm outside Delmas
and we would not be able to do this without the ongoing and generous support of Tiger Brands.
Tiger Brands
Tiger Brands supplies us with dry
food stuffs -including rice, mealie
meal, tinned goods and dry beans to the value of R24,000 per month.
With this support we are able to
run a nutritious and sustainable
kitchen ensuring that our trainees
are properly fed for the duration of
their courses.

farmers as a result of the work
that Buhle is doing. We at Tiger
Brands believe that all of this training will, in the future, result in agricultural produce being poured into
the economy which will ultimately
contribute to our own value chain.”

BoniDlamini-Makola, the CSI Manager at Tiger Brands, attended our
graduation in 2011.She said: “Food
Security is one of Tiger Brands’
main focus areas. With Buhle we
have found a space to support an
organisation that trains people to
do something for themselves with
regard to food security. I am very
excited about Buhle, it is wonderful
to see so many successful black

The Maize Trust is one of our oldest supporters. Since 2004 they
have been assisting Buhle by providing grants for our Crop Production Course.

Thanks Tiger Brands, we at Buhle
couldn’t do it without you!

The Maize Trust
This is Buhle’s longest and most expensive training section. Through it
Buhle selects, trains and prepares
promising young candidates to

start up as effective crop farmers.
Leon Du Plessis, from the Maize
Trust explains: “It is the practical
nature of the training that Buhle
does that makes us support their
programme. As the Maize Trust we
realised the dire need that exists
in South Africa to train black farmers. We are constantly looking for
new and better ways to do that and
we like what Buhle is doing in this
regard. The way that Buhle structures their training and its practical
nature means that many students
can be put through a course each
year, and come out with the knowledge and practical skills to be effective farmers.”
Buhle is proud of our association
with The Maize Trust and grateful
for their support.
Omnia very generously supplies
Buhle with 19 tons of fertilizer for
our crop production programme.
Omnia
With Omnia’s support we plant 43
ha’s maize, 12 ha’s lucerne and 7
ha’s of vegetables. The total value
of their contribution is approximately R255,000 per annum.
And, as if this was not enough, Omnia goes further. They also pay for
a trainer on our crop course who
also provides our crop farmer support. This role is filled by a specialised agronomist, who is very committed to our vision and mission.
Thank you Omnia – we at Buhleare privileged to have your generous assitance and theinvaluable
assistance of this associate staff
member!

Students at Buhle

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