MOZAMBIQUE is not much smaller than South Africa but it has more arable land and a dependable rainfall so it is attractive to the 1 000 South Africans, with their families, who are now farming there commercially.
They have not trekked far, but others have. South Africans are today farming in 42 African states. AgriSA has helped and advised 2 800 individual farmers and believes there may be 1 500 more.
A few farmers now farm in Croatia. There is even a South African farmer in the former soviet republic of Georgia (where Stalin was born and raised).
These figures suggest there is something in the DNA of Afrikaners that compels them to move ever deeper into the continent, but in fact, the prime driver is that governments are begging them to come. They welcome the injection of their skills in producing food in African conditions. READ MORE
Source: www.iol.co.za
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