05/05/2026
Community Livestock Workers - young South Africans, trained and equipped to be the local first responders for the cattle that hold rural economies together. The herds Abo Gogo have raised. The animals that pay school fees.
The livestock that feeds entire homesteads.
When CLW arrives in a community:
✅ A sick animal gets treatment before it becomes a loss
✅ A herd gets vaccinated on schedule, not eventually
✅ A smallholder farmer gets trusted, on-the-ground advice from someone who speaks their language and lives in their world
✅ A young person earns a dignified income doing work that matters - without leaving home to find it
This is what changes when CLW runs in your district. Healthier herds. Stronger rural economies. A generation of young people anchored in their communities, building up where they are instead of leaving for the cities.
CLW is delivered through the Afrigrow Development Institute, aligned to DSD priorities, and supported by Vodacom rural connectivity at our training centres.
This is not a programme that ends at certification. It's a programme that begins there.
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08/04/2026
🌱 Introducing the Community Livestock Workers of KwaZulu-Natal!
Afrigrow Agriholdings, in partnership with the UIF Labour Activation Programme, is training 1,620 young South Africans across 21 centres in 10 districts of KwaZulu-Natal. The knowledge they are gaining extends well beyond animal health.
The Community Livestock Worker (CLW) Programme includes:
🐄 A comprehensive understanding of the livestock production value chain — from animal growth to market delivery
💰 Personal finance and money management skills
📋 Business planning and entrepreneurship training
🎤 Presentation skills and peer-to-peer learning opportunities
These trainees are not simply passive learners in a classroom.
They conduct independent research, prepare and deliver their own presentations, and teach one another. This initiative is developing them into self-sufficient agricultural practitioners — individuals who are ready to work, lead, and eventually own their ventures.
1,620 trainees across KwaZulu-Natal are currently engaged in this transformative program.
This is what structural change looks like on the ground. 🇿🇦
06/11/2021
Do you want to become our COMMUNITY LIVESTOCK WORKER (CLW)? We are recruiting, training and placing over 500 CLW professionals in Phase 1. We also plan to meet 5000 CLWs in Phase 2 and 3. CLW are youth between 24 and 35 who will professionallt trained to support the Beef Industry.
Request application form for Eastern Cape and KZN province for this first round. Request form at [email protected] or whattsup us at 071 188 1779
26/04/2020
South Africa needs aggressive economic recovery plan, Moshe Molefe, Afrigrow's Chairman addressed EU bankers on Zoom about the BEEFSA Project as part of a Catalystic Project. "How do you measure a catalystic project, investors asked?". It must withstand national disaster, attract foreign direct investment, earn in foreign exchange, make large scale impact that absorb thousands of beef producers, it must positively disrupt the market currently controlled by monopoly groups, and finally, contribute to GDP in measurablr terms, not simply by inference, Moshe Molefe said to European Equity Investors based in London and Monaco.
26/04/2020
Africa's Biggest Meat Hub is underway in KZN to create thousand of jobs as part of the economic recovery plan, the Initiative of Afrigrow Agriholdings, remarked Moshe Molefe, the Executive Chairman.
Molefe addressed a group of global investors and buyers awaiting the goods, including Alibaba Group. The industrial hub, worth over several billions, is yet to be commissioned for construction with one of China"s infrastructure development giant in line for the contruction of a multibillion asset.
10/04/2020
South Africa's next Beef Industrial Giant underway
AFRIGROW BEEFSA