It is this from this community that Mam Refiloe was removed when the Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality’s bulldozers brought an end to the inspirational story of the Bertrams Inner City Farm – a ...

Refiloe Molefe, known to many as Mama Fifi, is determined to rebuild her thriving inner city farm after her acclaimed Bertrams urban farming project was taken over by the City of Johannesburg and its ...

Refiloe Molefe founded the Bertrams Inner City farm in 2009. The lush green farm sits in stark contrast to the dull buildings which surround it in the middle of Johannesburg. They produce and sell ...

Refiloe Molefe, 63, ran an acclaimed urban farm in Bertrams, Johannesburg, for 16 years, providing food and training to thousands of people. Refiloe Molefe, known to many as Mama Fifi, is determined ...

Refiloe Molefe talks as she plucks out the weeds from her garden. “The nyaope boys from under the bridge don’t want to work too much,” she says. “If you let them work for longer than a day they think ...

After doing the uncommon — planting and cultivating organic vegetables right in Johannesburg’s city centre, near busy roadways and high-rise buildings – Mam Refiloe Molefe has harvested for the last ...

Keep the doctor away with a glass of freshly pressed juice a day, says organic fruit and vegetable farmer Refiloe Molefe. Farming is not just a job for Molefe, who runs the Bambanani community ...

Whenever people walked by the overgrown bowling green in Johannesburg’s working-class Bertrams neighbourhood, they saw an eyesore. But Refiloe Molefe saw a chance to feed her community. The ...

JOHANNESBURG (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Whenever people walked by the overgrown bowling green in Johannesburg’s working-class Bertrams neighborhood, they saw an eyesore. But Refiloe Molefe saw a ...