Some women in Limpopo believe agriculture offers the best solution to tackle unemployment and poverty in the province.
With South Africa's unemployment rate at 32.9 in the first quarter of 2025, women and young people in rural areas are turning to entrepreneurship as a recourse.
Basani Rivisi has decided to farm on a small portion of land she obtained from her mother-in-law.
"What led me to do farming here was the lack of employment. I was looking for a job with no luck. I studied business management. I then asked my mother-in-law to give me her land, which she was not using. I started working on it alone. I grow cabbages, green peppers, and carrots and I sell them to community members," says Rivisi.
Meanwhile, a female commercial tomato farmer, Alicia Mamuliki, from Maangani, near Louis Trichardt, says she encountered several challenges in her journey to becoming a farmer.