For the love of the land
Subtitle: being a farmer in South Africa today
By: Ivor Price & Kobus Louwrens
Contributors: Louwrens, Kobus, author
Publisher: Tafelberg
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Cape Town
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780624088998
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Agriculture; Farmers; Biography; Family farms
Description: "For the Love of the Land introduces South Africans to the heroes of agriculture. A diverse crop of farmers from across the country share complex, layered stories about heritage and land, at times surviving traumas like land dispossession and forced labour and the more current spectre of violent farm crimes. From the small farms to the agri-businesses who feed South Africa against the odds, this book relays the power of land to heal, by telling stories that are often overlooked."--Publisher's description.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: the only good farmer is a dead farmer / Ivor Price; title: 1. Memories of my late father / Pieter Prinsloo; title: 2. The accidental farmer / Wadea Jappie; title: 3. They call me the black boerseun / Siviwe Tikana; title: 4. I am a farmer's daughter / Rita/Theresa du Plessis Van der Mescht; title: 5. Nobody knows about me / Mxolisi Mvaba; title: 6. Dancing across fields of wheat and rooibos / Whernit Dirks; title: 7. The day I cried for Bertie / Malixole Gwatyu; title: 8. A farm of our own / Kosie van Zyl; title: 9. This is who I am / Alfreda Stephanie Mars; title: 10. Remember, shoulder first / Lizemari de Klerk; title: 11. Land gives us life / Mthakathi Simon Makhanya; title: 12. This land, our sanctuary / Jacob and Magrieta Cloete; title: 13. Rest on the family farm, beloved father / Sandile Ngidi; title: 14. It's our land. Where else? / Jakobus Cloete; title: 15. A man of talent / Max Ndamane; title: 16. Once, I was sold to different farmers / Mahlomelane Johannes Mthembu; title: 17. The spectre of violence / Anneliese Burgess; title: 18. Our footprints on this earth are temporary / Philip Jonker; title: 19. She's home, and has found solace / Dineo Boshomane; title: 20. The tobacco angel / Nokamile Manjuza; title: 21. The setwork book and the lift with glass windows / Lehman Lindeque; title: 22. Lessons learnt from Totteman / Jac Jordaan; title: 23. When water becomes wine / Vivian Kleynhans; title: 24. To carry your bat / Burgert van Rooyen; title: 25. The blankets on which we sit / Irma van Rooyen; title: 26. Planting a tree under which you will never sit / Nick Serfontein; title: 27. A pocket knife and a heart willing to help / Henk Harmse; title: 28. Sitting on Oom Dries's lap / Ettiene van Wyk; title: 29. Why I started growing my own food / Nonkululeko Britton/Masekela; title: 30. The optimistic agriculturist / Wandile Sihlobo; title: Afterword: bless the hands that made the food / Kobus Louwrens, Paarl, Western Cape.