SUCCESSFUL YOUNG FARMER ON POINT WITH MIXED-FARMING OPERATION
Nkosana Mtambo was introduced to the world of business and farming at the age of three by his father, Jabu Mtambo, a successful entrepreneur in the Vaal triangle, and his late grandfather, Samuel Mtambo, who farmed livestock in Frankfort.
“My grandfather farmed on a family farm in Frankfort and owned a small plot in Three Rivers near the Vaal, where I grew up,” Nkosana says. “My dad owned a few retail shops, including butcheries in Boipatong and Evaton.” This early exposure played a role in Nkosana’s career and his ability to build a successful business with an annual turnover of more than R15 million in less than six years.
Mtambo Boerdery was established in 2014 when Jabu and Samuel gave Nkosana a 710ha farm in Vrede as a 21st-birthday gift. Today he grows maize and beans on 200ha and runs a 200-cow breeding herd of Bonsmaras and 400 Dohne merinos on three farms totalling 2 000ha.
“I went to live with my grandparents when I was three years old,” says Nkosana. He was always with hisin Evaton.”This is where my understanding of the red-meat value chain started,” he says.
