NERPO OPENS A NEW DECADE WITH A NEW LEADER
28 Sep 2007
During NERPO’s recent gala dinner of the 10th Anniversary Celebrations and AGM held at the CSIR, City of Tshwane recently, the Group Managing Director, Mr. Aggrey Mahanjana announced that Mr.Madambi Wilson Muvhulawa will be the new chairperson of the National Emergent Red Meat Producers Organisation (NERPO). Mr. Muvhulawa who is from the Limpopo province takes over the reigns of leadership from Mr. Victor Moagi of North West Province.
“The appointment of Mr. Muvhulawa could not have come at a better time, than a period in which we have just opened for ourselves a new chapter and account with which to strengthen the organisation, both in terms of Economic Empowerment of our members, youth and women in Agriculture as well as institutional capacity of our local structures to be able to engage government on matters of livestock development. I am confident that a man of his caliber will lead us successfully into the new era” said Mr. Mahanjana.
Key in his first address, Mr. Muvhulawa has emphasized on the need to grow the organisation by targeting agricultural youth and rural women, for them to play a pivotal role in food security and agricultural development. He sees young people and agriculture as the future of the country’s economy; hence their participation in the agricultural economy becomes vitally important. .
Mr Muvhulawa is currently the Chairperson of the South African Federation of Red Meat Producers, an organisation that enjoins both white commercial and the black emerging livestock farmers to deal collectively with issues of common interest and development of the red meat industry. Among other positions he holds , Mr. Muvhulawa is a founding member of NERPO-Limpopo, a provincial structure of NERPO, Chairperson of NERPO Investments Limited, Trustee of the Limpopo Livestock Development Trust (LLDT), Chairperson of Elangeni Animal Health, and advisor to the MEC for Agriculture in Limpopo Province..
NERPO is a mouthpiece of South African emerging livestock farmers who are predominantly black and rural. In its ten year anniversary this year the organisation’s membership has grown to over 48 000.
Further Enquiries
Aggrey Mahanjana
Group Managing Director
Tel : +27 12 361 9127
Cell : +27 82 556 7297
Email : aggreym@nerpo.org.za
Website : www.nerpo.org.za
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