These twins Siphelele and Siphesihle Duma attended Youth Basic Life Skills (YBLS) at ACAT in 2015.

These twins Siphelele and Siphesihle Duma attended Youth Basic Life Skills (YBLS) at ACAT in 2015, while they were enrolled in Grade 8. The knowledge they acquired at this course served as the foundation for their current ventures. The twins’ involvement in many courses has taken locals, including those who are close to them, by surprise. The young men have decided to pursue a career in agriculture, and they have taken a few short courses on the production of broilers and pigs.

Their first attempt at running a farming business was to breed hunting dogs because they identified a need, and believed that this would help people in general, and hunters in particular. The money they made from selling dogs was reinvested in a piggery and broiler business. The proceeds from the sale of 200 broilers and 12 piglets were put towards the purchase of blocks and building supplies to build a four-bedroom house.

The Twins’ philosophy is fostering the development of genuine youth who are driven to design the world they envision. The goal of Siphesihle and Siphelele is to prevent other young people from going through what they went through by teaching their peers their mistakes, and how to embrace the discomfort of hard work, and that in order to build a pig house and a chicken run, they required assistance and working funds which they worked on through saving and loans.