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FARMING WITH PASSION

It all started with a doe and two kids gifted to Neo Leburu’s mother as a token of appreciation when she was still a teenager. She immediately fell in love with the goats. A decade later, she quit her day job, packed her bags and left Johannesburg’s concrete jungle to head back to her rural home in Ganyesa near Vryburg in North West.

She just wanted to spend more time with her hooved friends – the goats that have now multiplied into a sizeable tribe.

“Many people, including my boss, thought I was crazy and not thinking straight when I resigned. They found it hard to understand just how someone would quit an office job so they could go into goat farming,” said 30-year-old Leburu.

“All I wanted was to be there with my babies. I could not bear the pain of getting calls

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