‘To succeed, a new farmer must be a quick learner’
Oct 19, 2020
4 minutes
Gugulethu Mahlangu, who was born and raised in eMalahleni, Mpumalanga, started studying agricultural science at the University of Pretoria in 2014. After one year of study, she felt uncertain about following a career in agriculture, and switched to psychology and physiology.
But she still felt a desire to follow in the footsteps of her grandmother, who was a farmer. So, to help make up her mind, she volunteered for work on farms to gain practical experience and get a taste of what life as a farmer would really be like.
A CHALLENGING START
Mahlangu admits she felt intimidated at first, as her male counterparts kept undermining her. Because she was a young woman,
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