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Cape Town - The top women in agriculture in the Western Cape have been announced.
Lindelwa Mabuya of Abagold Abalone Farming in Hermanus was honoured as best female worker. She has worked at Abagold for the past 19 years. She started as a general worker and was promoted to specialist abalone spawning manager in 2000. Her work entails spawning, settling, cleaning the brood stock and feeding them.
Viona Kapank, head of the Haarlem Vroue Vereniging in Haarlem, won the category of best subsistence producer. The Haarlem Vroue Vereniging is a community garden in Haarlem, tended by women farming with vegetables. The garden was started in 2013 by a group of unemployed women looking for a source of food security. They also donate to their community.
