Invitation from The Northern Cape Department of Agriculture for suitably good aspirants to apply for the 2025/26 Unemployed Agricultural Entrepreneurial Development Programme vacuities.
Best Before: 19 December 2025.
Why this internship matters:
South Africa’s granges are growing and so are the chances for people who love shops, creatures, and the outside. The Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Rural Development and Land Reform( DAERL) has opened an instigative 24 ‑ month training programme that gives jobless graduates a paid place on a ranch, in a hydroponics lab, or a beast centre.
Still, the terrain, or conservation, If you have a diploma or degree in anything that touches on farming.
Quick shot
Program name: 2025/26 Unemployed Agricultural Entrepreneurial Development Programme
Who runs it: Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Rural Development & Land Reform( DAERL)
No. of Posts: x80
Fixed Term: 24 months( two times)
Stipend: R7 860.50 per month
Best Before: 19 December 2025 ( no late or deficient operations)
Contact: Mr Malebogo Mocwiri – 082 559 0827
What you’ll experience:
- Farm Operations – From planting to harvesting, crop and beast care, mixed husbandry, and indeed hydroponics.
- Agro ‑ Processing – Turning raw yield into packaged foods.
- Nature Conservation – Managing game reserves and guarding wildlife.
- Business Chops – design operation, budgeting, and how to start your own ranch or agribusiness.
- You’ll get real ‑ world practice on a ranch, guidance from educated growers, and access to instructors who help you plan unborn systems.
Why This Program Is Special:
- It’s aimed at first ‑ time government interns, giving beginners a chance to learn without former experience.
- Women, people with disabilities, and anyone who has noway had a government externship before are encouraged to apply.
- The programme is a stepping gravestone to a full ‑ time job or your own agribusiness.
About the Department
- Promote sustainable husbandry ways.
- Figure chops in youthful professionals.
- Support pastoral husbandry and new businesses.
- Make sure land is used responsibly and nature is saved.
- Launching this graduate programme shows the Department’s commitment to training the coming generation of growers and business possessors.
Who Can Apply?
- Age 18 – 45 times old.
- Employment status Unemployed graduates.
- Qualification Diploma or degree in Agriculture, Environmental Affairs, Nature Conservation, Environmental Management, or related studies.
- Other If you’re a woman or have a disability, your operation will be given precedence.
What you’ll admit
Pay-check – R7 860.50 every month.
Training – 24 months of structured, hands ‑ on literacy.
Practical Chops – husbandry, crop wisdom, beast care, agro ‑ processing, conservation, and design operation.
Business Support – Coaching, mentorship, and sapience into backing options for unborn agribusiness gambles.
Networking – Connections with growers, scientists, and assiduity leaders that can help your career latterly.
How to Apply
- Download the Z83 operation form from the DAERL website and fill it out fully.
Write a clear CV that includes
- Contact details
- Education history
- Any work or levy experience (indeed if it’s not tilling)
- Chops you suppose are useful for husbandry
- Mention the reference number( this keeps your operation in the right place).
- Shoot your operation by one of these styles
- Post to the Department’s office.
- Dispatch or hand ‑ deliver the documents.
Need help?
General questions – call or text: Mr Malebogo Mocwiri at 082 559 0827.
Media or redundant inquiries – reach out to Mr Stephen Galane at 065 707 9152 or dispatch sgalane@daerl.co.za/ sgalane30@gmail.com.
Apply beforehand to secure a spot and start your career in South Africa’s growing agrarian assiduity.
