Photographed at the Matt Zondagh Landgoed crèche, from left to right, are:
Lydia Delport, Pieter-Matt Stemmet, Sharon Appels and Verity van Rooyen along with
their young learners.
we do to a child” - close to heart with their
commitment to improving the lives of those in
their communities and especially those of the
children. “The input the children receive in the
creche is proven to be key to their success at
school and in later life”, Pieter-Matt says as he
shows us around the creche.
At MZL they grow and pack apples and pears for
Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing as well as raise lambs,
Merino wool and Bonsmara cattle. Aside from
the creche there is also an adjacent sports field
which the community is welcome to use.
Most of the staff at MZL have been there for
many years. “My father only fired one person
and that was because the other workers
considered him a trouble maker and wanted
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him out”, Francois Zondagh says. “Our staff can
live on the farm in the accommodation they
have always lived in for as long as they’d like to”,
he says adding that all have power, most have
mains electricity but some properties have solar
power,” he ends.
Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing managing director
Roelf Pienaar says that having Langkloof
growers like the Zondagh family with whom
Tru-Cape has had a long-standing and mutually
successful relationship makes Tru-Cape’s
ability to sell fruit into 104 countries easier. “We
rely on fruit from the Langkloof region for its
excellent quality and later availability because of
the different climate to the rest of the Western
Cape,” he ends.
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