Vivian Jakobs says that when he was growing up on the farm Wanganella, which has since been renamed Beste Wens, in the Warm Bokkeveld, people at school in Ceres used to look down on him; they did not expect him to amount to much in life.
Jakobs believes this was because he was a farmworker’s child, just like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather before him.
AFTER THREE YEARS OF DOING SEASONAL WORK HE WAS APPOINTED AS A PERMANENT GENERAL WORKER, A STEP UP AND AN ADJUSTMENT
But he has proved them all wrong by working his way up from being a seasonal worker to becoming manager of one of the farms