The owner of Zinceba Piggery, Poultry and Vegetables Farming, Nomzamo Lobi , from New Payne in Mthatha, is willing to take young people from the street in her area to work in her piggery, so that they could stay away from the temptation of using drugs.
Lobi said she owns 71 pigs, including piglets, so she always calls street dwellers to assist her when cleaning the structures used by her pigs.
“By doing this I want to show them that they could do something else instead of spending their time destroying their lives.
“Also, when they work for me, I make sure that I give their parents money so that they could buy something to eat.
“My wish is to see them working full time in my piggery so that they could start a new life,” said Lobi.
She said she started the business in 2019 when her whole family was unemployed.
As a mother, she decided to do something to put food on the table. She started by selling chickens and then bought piglets. According to her she also taught her children how to do this type of farming.
Lobi said she mainly sells the pigs to the abattoir.
She added that even though she is trying her best, she spends most of her money buying feed for her pigs. She also does not have a proper structure.
Lobi said most of the time people don’t know that this is an important business and she wishes young people could also join it so that they could look after their families.
Her grandson, Thabiso Madalane (23), said he had learnt a lot about this, and he was willing to follow in his grandmother’s footsteps.
“I even know how to assist the pig when it wants to give birth because our grandmother taught us,” said Madalane.
