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It’s not often you feel proud to come from Gauteng. But last night the contingent of Northern Journalists from the Old Transvaal felt proud and cold in Paarl in equal measures at the annual Farmer of the Year Awards. For Gauteng’s flag was flown in the icy gale by Anna Phosa, a pig farmer from Vanderbijlpark, who is Gauteng’s nomination for Farmer of the Year. A decade ago, Anna was a checkout lady at Shoprite/Checkers in Balfour Park and today 6800 pigs pass through her hands. “Happy pigs” insists Anna “and much cleverer than dogs. We make toys for them to stop them getting bored” while they get fat. Anna has not yet seen Babe.
Anna Phosa
The seventies foyer of the Baxter Theatre was crawling last night with new media and social situationalists. Franschhoek phenomenon Solms-Delta, always first with the goodies, had arranged a tasting of lifestyle wines (Cape Jazz Shiraz, Vastrap and Langarm) and tickets for David Kramer’s tour-de-flats called Breyani. Until the UCT wireless went down, the frenzy of tweets was displayed on a large screen above the milling foyer throng, confirming that broadband in Africa still has a few miles to walk in existing velskoene.
David Kramer last night
