Oom Piet Dolleys from Richmond

Oom Piet Dolleys grew up on Ryk Meiring’s farm near Richmond, and vividly remembers growing up quite literally between the goats. His familty was thrown off the land, because the farmer did not want oom Piet's father to work there any more. They landed up in a small house-for-rent in Graaff Reinet, and oom Piet has now been staying in the suburb of Mandela Park for 20 years, where he farms with merino sheep. While he says he has started his farm off small, with access to a limited pocket of land, he wants to expand in the future, including to farming pigs and cattle.
This film is released as part of series created by Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba, the “true voice of the land”, based in Graaff-Reinet in the Karoo. Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba is a collaborative project established between the Support Centre for Land Change and Youth-in-Power in Graaff Reinet, and academic partners at the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies in Johannesburg, and at Leeds University in the UK. It is part of the Changing the Story programme, and you can read more about our project here: changingthesto...
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