AGRICULTURAL NEWS - She produces a variety of vegetables on a patch of land not bigger than 80m2, which feeds her family and creates an extra source of income, as she sells the surplus produce.
Stungu grew up in the Eastern Cape and spent many years on a farm before becoming a full-time domestic worker in 2012 in Gauteng.
She moved back to her home province with her employers in 2016 to Port Elizabeth and continued to work for them.
Her employer, Dr Gerhard Verdoorn, is the director of the Griffon Poison Information Centre, and a vulture activist. He said he gave Stungu the wherewithal to start her first garden: “I gave her a small packet of vegetable seed and some liquid fertiliser.”
It was not long after that that Stungu started bringing some of the fruits of her labours to the Verdoorn household from her home in Motherwell.
