Empangeni's Sindi Thusi is a busy woman, and correctional services officials are using her skills for prisoner programmes.
Empangeni’s Sindi Thusi is a busy woman: teacher, chicken farmer, fish breeder, vegetable farmer, correctional services trainer and mother of three.“Every day I must make sure I feed the chickens and there is correct lighting. When I come back in the afternoon, I must make sure I feed them and collect the eggs, water the seedlings, and clean the eggs and package them,” she said.
“The fish turned one year old in August. They are multiplying and giving birth, It is so interesting,” Thusi said. “Shops were closed. In my area the town was vandalised and closed so people couldn’t go anywhere. I became a solution,” she said.he eggs alone can earn her R1,500 a week. She sells them cheaper than traditional shops.On juggling her day job, parenting and farming work, she said: “uckily the children spend time at school in the training centre. That is how I get a lot of time to do my work. They are also involved in my farming work, and a love has developed in them too.