In conversation with the Vice Chancellor of Northwest University who visited NAMPO Dr. Bismark Tyobeka who is also a farmer.
put the d today to the test choose excellence queues john deur pieter who spoke moller to the vice chancellor of north west university the who visited nampo and is 'n buurman cattle farmer himself in the province at nampo professor bismark tyobeka and he the vice is chancellor of the north west university prof bismark what a privilege to see you on the nampo terrain you how do you feel haven't been here for long huge but it's the biggest agricultural show in hemisphere the southern it is indeed a pleasure to here today be and i mean it it's just intimidating as i walk in the because i've never been to an agricultural show this so it big is indeed a great pleasure skies beautiful here you know happy people tell you can that people are at the very space comfortable and just a few metres want to say and i in a hundred metres so you or you met so so many alumni and distinctions and whatever it is interesting to see that in fact a number of very distinguished people come here from our university are our they alumnus so it the really talks to two things one the fact are a that we university that is to reckon but with secondly it means that we produce very excellent very graduates that make impact out particular in in the agricultural space because as i always preach our food security as a nation depends on how much we invest in agricultural capacity building and i think nampo very great is a show to showcase put that if we more efforts and more resources capacity into the building training education of our students our kids in the agricultural space the future security food of south africa africa and will the world be secured professor bismark and apart from being the vice chancellor of the north west university you're also a farmer yes i actually farmed livestock the other side of rustenburg towards the border of davenport botswana and of the things so one that i am here have to a look at is the advancement the genetics in for example of kat lifetime vorm by the way mix of boere and brahmaan hopefully as time evolves i want to it clean at keep foreign so i will very interested be to have a look at borman stands here of course our friend serfontein is mr from from potchefstroom is here ball with his with his bosch maritz i'm gonna make a turn at at his exhibition and see what's the latest from the serfontein farm so important and that the university display their team and marketing also you know recruit students prospective and students for for the future for the university i can assure are you that if you want this future farmers just farmers not only were kaartjies and go and look there out farmers that look into the fourth fifth industrial and revolution that means the younger you ones catch them here strategic so it is quite that we have our own the recruiters on such as yourself peter quite and i am grateful for the decision that our crm team has made to have a i stall here also here that we also have our you know some of our subsidiaries as companies such a f m that i hear also making a present so that way we in right in the heartland of the free state not far from our competitors we are here stamping our authority as the north west university versterk dit was so lekker te gesels baie dankie om met jou lekker vir die onderhoud en boer let us altyd n plesier dankie ek moet net noem kovsie dit is 'n out pieter moller die kanselier universiteit van die nwu gesels het nie net 'n goeie onderrig gekry drie en twintig minute voor sy scope gebeur nie weer eighteen hoping our families healthy this