Ravele CPA Is a Great Success the Ravele Community Property Association Are Making a Success of the Land They Received After Claiming for Restitution
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Health • Rural Development • EmploymentEDUCATION • Safety & Security April• Education 2017 Edition 2 1 JJOOBSBS Vuk’uzenzele ININSSIIDDEE:: Produced by Government Communications (GCIS) | April 2017 Edition 2 Ravele CPA is a great success THE RAVELE COMMUNITY Property Association are making a success of the land they received after claiming for restitution. Today they sell their fresh produce locally and abroad. The CPA made a profit of New drugs to R9.7 million last year and treat MDR-TB has put away R11 million in investments since 2014. Page 4 Their profit margins have been rising. In 2014, the CPA made R3.5 million and improved to R5.1 million in 2015. Bethuel Ravele stands guard at the gate. It’s buck- eting down and there is no sign of the rain letting up. It has been raining for the greater part of the week and the lush, drizzly and fertile Levubu valley outside Makhado is teeming with life. Creating jobs, The grass is green, mango cleaning the trees cover the entire re- environment gion and the banana trees resemble a green blanket Page 6 stretching for kilometres. Employees at Ravele CPA wash freshly picked bananas at the CPA's pack house. The bananas will be sold at This is really Africa’s Eden. local markets across Limpopo Province The CPA represents 324 know that the claim would stand in their way. families with 880 benefi- Albert Pule bring together long-lost Government transferred ciaries with the majority of relatives, create jobs, feed 16 macadamia, avocado, them living in nearby villag- hen the Ravele the community and even banana, sweet potato es. The CPA was formed in community out- offer sponsorship to young and litchi farms worth April 2004 but the claim was Wside Makhado, people from the area. R42 million in the subtrop- lodged in 1995. Limpopo, lodged a claim The Ravele community ical Limpopo area to the The tale of forced removal ALSO AVAILABLE ON: for their ancestral land, in Levubu, 30 km east of Ravele Community Prop- as told by his great-grand- government was worried Makhado, was displaced erty Association (CPA) in parents and his parents that the claim would af- from its ancestral land. Un- 2005. brings back sad memo- fect economic activity in like many other communi- The business has survived ries for CPA chairperson the region. ties across the country, they liquidation and turned its Little did government did not let their misfortune fortunes around. Cont. page 2 We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society. We have a @VukuzenzeleNews vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together Vuk'uzenzele as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity. 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The contribution this funding manager rofit from the sale of Coming from a poor back- has made is invaluable.” the Ravele Commu- ground, Nemauluma says They CPA also sponsors the is crucial Pnity Property Asso- he is grateful for the CPA’s best Grade 12 learners from ciation’s (CPA) produce is support. “My parents are the community where the shared among the benefi- both unemployed and they best learner is given Albert Pule ciaries. The CPA has also hold piece jobs now and then R3 000, The learners established a bursary fund to cover up the expenses for placed second, The Ravele Community that sponsors 40 students at their survival. third, fourth and Property Association in Levu- different universities across “They cannot afford to pay fifth get R2 500, bu, Limpopo, received 16 maca- the country. for my university expenses R2 000, R1 500 damia, avocado, banana, sweet They are pursuing different and I hope to finish my Mas- and R1 000 re- potato and litchi farms worth fields of study at the Univer- ter’s degree by the end of spectively. R42 million from government sity of Cape Town, the Uni- next year so I can help them “The aim is to in 2005. versity of the Western Cape, come out of poverty they encourage them An agency called South Af- Nelson Mandela Metropoli- have been living in from their to know that rican Farm Managers (SAFM) tan University, the University childhood.” there is a reward managed the farm. The agen- of Johannesburg, University He uses the money from the if you work hard cy’s role is to teach commu- of the Free State and Sefako CPA to cover the cost of trans- and study. nities to use restituted land Makgatho Health Sciences portation, tuition, accommo- We also choose from One of the students successfully. supported financially by University at a combined cost dation, food and books. “The the same pool to the Ravele CPA Dakalo In 2007, Danie Basson was of R410 000 a year. sponsorship has helped me a sponsor those who Nemauluma is c is currently appointed as Chief Production studying for his masters Dakalo Nemauluma is one lot and in various ways from will go to univer- degree at University of Cape Officer of SAFM. of the bursars. He is reading the times when I didn't have sity the following Town Bethuel says the CPA and for a Science Master's Degree enough money for accommo- year.” v SAFM did not see eye to eye on a number of things pertaining to the running of the farm. “One of the major issues is people to come and stay in supervising a group of farm that they did not support the our land. workers. production process designed “They came and loaded The four business units by the chief production officer our grandparents into employ 175 permanent and us as the CPA.” trucks and gave them a staff who are all from the The disagreement led to small piece of land very far community and employ 51 the collapse of the agreement from here and others were seasonal employees. between Ravele CPA and the taken to Nenzhelele.” “The majority of our managing agent. Since taking over the employees are from the After the disbandment of government of the day told farms, the CPA in partner- community because we want the agreement, the CPA hired From. page 1 them that this land is not ship with a managing agent them to be part of this project Basson directly to manage the suitable for black people has divided the area into because it is their land and we four business units. They are Bethuel. because it is fertile and we four business units, each cannot do this without their Applefontein & Bull, Machikiri “They told us that the had to make way for white managed by one person support,” says Bethuel. v & Britz (banana), EMS (maca- damias, litchis and avocadoes) and Redbank (macadamias). The CPA gave Basson a six- South Africa is open for business month contract and within the six months he had performed to improve the business envi- period of three years.” wonders on the farm. “He TO HELP CUT red tape and make ronment by lowering the cost Investors get one point of developed sound production it easier to launch a business in South … and improving the ease of contact processes that brought the units Africa a one-stop-shop concept is doing business.” For investors the InvestSA back to life and based on his being rolled out. President Zuma said provin- One Stop Shops will be the work ethic we then decided to cial One Stops would also be main point of contact with give him a five year contract.” launched this year. government. They will help The CPA sells its produce Noluthando Motswai investors critical to econom- “These will be known as investors to work with the to markets in Pretoria and Jo- ic growth and job creation. InvestSA KZN, InvestSA relevant government depart- hannesburg (litchis). It exports aunching Invest- InvestSA is a one-stop-shop Gauteng and InvestSA West- ments involved in issuing macadamias to China, the SA President Jacob for investors at the Depart- ern Cape and so forth as we permits and in regulatory, United States, the Middle East, LZuma said South ment of Trade and Industry roll our new Invest SA brand. registration, and licensing Europe and Canada. The avoca- Africa was open to foreign (dti) head office. Other provinces will open does are exported to France. v Cont. page 4 direct investment which is “Government is determined their One Stop Shops over a Translators Head of Editorial and Production Sub-Editor | Irene Naidoo Nomgqibelo Motha Tasneem Carrim | [email protected] Boitumelo Phalatse Writers Phakamani Dadlana Managing Editor Albert Pule Dorris Simpson | [email protected] Noluthando Motswai Vuk’uzenzele All rights reserved. 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