With 26 years’ experience in citrus farming, a can-do approach towards farming and life in general, rock-solid faith and a caring attitude towards his staff and farmworkers, Hilary Weyers epitomises the inspiring South African farmer who knows what it takes to run an export citrus farm successfully.

A hands-on farm manager who believes a farmer’s footprints should still be found on the land, Frans Vorsatz follows an open-door policy when it comes to his farmworkers. For the last five years he has been managing SAFE’s Marblehall farm, situated near the Limpopo town with the twin name. Marblehall is the Cape Town-based citrus and table grape producer-exporter’s largest farm by far and the latest addition to its group of farms in South Africa.

The Cape Town-based table grape and citrus producer and exporter, SAFE (South African Fruit Exporters), has announced that it will be moving its head office to the vibrant and trendy …