EC woman named Job Creator of the Year

Andiswa Mkosi
10 September 2012

Eastern Cape woman farmer Madelé Ferreira was recently named this year’s Job Creator of the Year.

She won the category for growing her business in the Gamtoos Valley from a few hundred plants in 1998 to a multi-million rand farming enterprise today.

Ferreira supplies South Africa’s leading supermarkets with spinach, leeks and strawberries.

She says creating jobs for her 90 employees is her way of helping her community