THE THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE… FOR FARMING!
It took a trip to Thailand for Duncan Serapelwane to rediscover his love of farming. “I was raised by a farmer but I learnt to despise farming as a child,” he recalls. “While my friends were out playing, I was working on the farm. Sometimes we’d drive out to the farm with my dad’s old car and we’d get stuck in the middle of nowhere. We’d spend the whole day trying to fix it. I just couldn’t understand why people said there was money in farming. That wasn’t my experience!” laughs Duncan, now a respected black Bonsmara stud breeder.
Duncan runs two herds. One is a commercial herd on 625ha in Morokweng, 136km outside Vryburg in the North West. It is prime cattle country, known as the Texas of South Africa. He also has 2 850ha in the Kgalagadi, where he runs his stud, Moalosi Bonsmara, comprising 300 cows and five bulls.
According to Duncan, he inherited
