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Lucky Khoza
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Yvonne Fontyn
Financial Mail
Friday, April 30, 2010
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During the eight-and-a-half years Lucky Khoza worked as a field guide at the Kruger National Park he nursed an ambition to be a farmer. Finally, with his savings he was able to rent a farm near Bushbuckridge in Mpumalanga, and begin farming with chickens and vegetables. Khoza was elated to find on March 25 that he had made it into the top 10 participants in the TechnoServe Believe Begin Become entrepreneurship development programme, sponsored by Standard Bank, with a prize of R110000. Khoza and his wife operate the 6ha farm, with 4ha under vegetables and supplying 8000 chickens monthly to the local community. “The prize will boost my operations. My goal is to supply 20 000 chickens a month,” says the 34-year-old father of three. He employs 13 workers and says though he grew up tending fields and livestock, much of what he has learnt about farming was from them. The TechnoServe programme also offered training in drafting a business plan and doing presentations, new skills Khoza welcomed. “Being told I
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