In die Bossieveld-omgewing, sowat 20 minute se ry van Villiersdorp, l\u00ea historiese plase soos Radyn en Stettyn met \u2019n asemrowende uitsig oor die Stettyn-bergreeks. <\/p>\n
Stettyn is genoem na \u2019n dorp in Duitsland waarvandaan die 1714-eienaar gekom het, en vandag, sedert 1818, boer agt geslagte Botha-familielede hier.<\/p>\n
Hoewel Stettyn-wynkelder die grootste en sekerlik mees sigbare aspek van die besigheid is, is Hendrik en Wena Botha van Stettyn ook uitstaande appel- en peerkwekers.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns het net 20 hektaar appels en pere en het kort voor die Paasfees klaar geoes,\u201d s\u00ea Hendrik. Maar ten spyte van die \u201credelik klein\u201d vrugteboerdery, is hulle onlangs as wenners aangewys van Grabouw se appel-en-peerverwerker, Two-a-Day, se gesogte trofee vir die hoogste inkomste per dra-hektaar, \u2019n bewys dat hulle hoog bo hulle gewigklas uitstyg. <\/p>\n
Hendrik is in 2022 as \u2019n Two-a-Day-maatskappydirekteur aangestel.<\/p>\n
Maar die Stettyn-onderneming wentel hoofsaaklik om sy mense.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns het sowat 40 mense in ons voltydse personeel en 25 huise op die plaas. Soos my vrou, Wena, ook werk, verwag ons dat alle personeel se gesinseenheid \u2019n inkomste bydra. En deur ons eie kleuterskool en die Laerskool Stettyn ondersteun ons ook ons plaasfamilie,\u201d s\u00ea Hendrik.<\/p>\n
Die wynkant van die onderneming het vyf aandeelhouers en \u2019n reeks wat ou wingerde van klein blokke tot maklike wingerde dek. <\/p>\n
Hendrik, ook Stettyn Vineyards se besturende direkteur, wat in wingerd- en wynkunde opgelei is, speel steeds \u2019n belangrike rol in die wynbesigheid. <\/p>\n
Appels en pere, en meer onlangs sagte sitrus, het egter ook \u2019n belangrike deel van die plaas geword.<\/p>\n
\u2019n Onlangse uitbreiding en gesamentlike onderneming met Two-a-Day is die opening van \u2019n miljoen-liter- sapkonsentraatbergingsfasiliteit om vrugtekonsentraat te stoor. <\/p>\n
Aan die oorkant van die pad na die wynkelder en hul gesinswoning is \u2019n stuk onbewerkte grond waar \u2019n dam gebou is op \u2019n hoogte wat beteken dat hulle nie baie krag hoef te gebruik om water vir besproeiing te pomp nie. <\/p>\n
Rondom die dam is vlaktewild \u2013 swartwildebeeste, bontebokke, sebras en elande. \u2019n Skugter groep springbokke slinger soos ons naderkom. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy pa het my altyd die waarde van watersekerheid geleer, so ons, as \u2019n Stettyn-groep, het baie bel\u00ea in die bou van \u2019n dam. My oupa was lief vir diere en hy het vir baie jare \u2019n kameelperd naby sy huis gehad. Al die Botha-familielede deel sy passie vir die natuur,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n
Wena is self hands-on<\/i> in die familiebesigheid; dit terwyl sy ook as mediese dokter in Villiersdorp werk. <\/p>\n
\u201cDie nuwe kliniek van die departement van gesondheid wat onlangs in Villiersdorp geopen is, is nou so \u2019n plesier \u2013 dit is \u2019n w\u00eareldklas\u00adfasiliteit en iets waarop ons baie trots kan wees,\u201d s\u00ea sy. <\/p>\n
\u201cOp die plaas is mediese sifting vir onder meer TB en MIV verpligtend. Die staat verskaf gratis medisyne vir MIV-voorkoming en -behandeling en met korrekte behandeling kan \u2019n kind wat van \u2019n MIV+-ma gebore is MIV-vry wees. 25 jaar gelede was dit \u2019n doodsvonnis,\u201d s\u00ea sy.<\/p>\n
Hendrik Botha hou weekliks \u2019n vergadering met al die personeel.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns gebruik hierdie geleentheid om deur die uitdagings te praat en om die hele proses van die plant van die druif tot die verkoop van \u2019n bottel wyn in detail te bespreek en ons bespreek ook die vrugtekant. <\/p>\n
\u201cEk spoor personeel aan om op kwaliteit eerder as kwantiteit te fokus. Ons het \u2019n haalbare daaglikse plukteiken wat mense meer tyd gee om te sorg en kneusings te vermy. Om topgehalte-vrugte te produseer is \u2019n massiewe spanpoging, goed opgeleide personeel, w\u00eareldklas Twee-\u2019n-dag- tegniese personeel wat weekliks besoeke bring en daaglikse terugvoer gee tydens oes, alles dra by.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns plaas se doel is om die op-die- plaas klas-een-vrugte wat ons na Two-a-Day stuur te optimaliseer, wat dan vir ons onder die Tru-Cape-handelsmerk bemark word.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns het ook \u2019n organisasiekaart wat duidelik maak waar elke persoon by die besigheid inpas. En ons moedig ons personeel aan om vaardighede op te gradeer deur byvoorbeeld \u2019n rybewys te kry, selfs al is hulle nie bestuurders nie. Hoe meer vaardighede, hoe ho\u00ebr op die grafiek en inkomsteleer kan mense gaan. Ons sien die goeie in almal en glo mense wil en kan verbeter. Ek glo daaraan om personeel aan te moedig, wat ek ook wens ons regering kan doen om die landbousektor te laat groei en meer volhoubare werk te skep,\u201d s\u00ea hy.<\/p>\n
Wena s\u00ea dat hulle altyd op die uitkyk is vir belowende kandidate van binne die plaasfamilies.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns het nie net die gewasse wat ons plant, verander om meer werk vir ons personeel vir die hele jaar toe te laat nie, maar ons soek ook aktief na maniere om waarde tot hul lewe toe te voeg. Een van ons werknemers se kinders, wat baie potensiaal getoon het, was passievol daaroor om \u2019n klankingenieur te word en ons het \u2019n aantal instansies onsuksesvol genader om \u2019n beurs vir hom te kry en op die ou end het ons besluit ons sal self sy program finansier. Hy het geblom en dit is lonend om te sien dat ons \u2019n positiewe bydrae tot sy lewe gemaak het,\u201d s\u00ea Wena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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