Anybody who believes in the motto ‘go big or go home’ has clearly never met 28-year-old Clive Tigere. He is going big in his own home town of Louis Trichardt, Limpopo.
Tigere and his mother, Dr Caroline Tigere, started a broiler operation back in 2011, when he was still in high school.
“Things have changed very much since then. At that time we bought our chicks directly from a hatchery, and our feed from a mill,” he remembers.
By the time he matriculated, business was booming and he and his mother were selling 1 000 live birds a day. “That was good money. We sold birds at R40 each, which means we had a turnover of R40 000 a day.”
EDUCATION FIRST
Tigere was reluctant to leave the business after matric for further education, as he was simply not
