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THE
GRAIN AND OILSEED INDUSTRY
OF SOUTH AFRICA – A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME
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Sound bite: Anecdote about the erection of the
NAMPO Hall – Mr Giel van Zyl.
as the eighties. In South Africa’s years of political sanctions the
Western Australian
Regional Manufacturers
decided to hold exhibitions here, as Western Australia’s
agricultural conditions correspond with those in parts of South Africa. Eventually
the Australian pavilion was established in the early 1990s as the Harvest Day’s first
international pavilion.
Communities
Learners of the NAMPO Agricultural Secondary School and Bothaville High School
annually worked at the grounds on Harvest Day, for which the schools received an
amount and could also use the facilities for school functions in exchange. NAMPO
Secondary is currently still involved at the Harvest Day.
Another local community initiative that developed was the guest house project of
the Maize Capital’s tourism forum that involved not only guest houses, but also
private homes that satisfy the so-called maize rating to provide accommodation
during, for example, the Harvest Day and the Congress. By 1995, when the project
started, the number of beds occupied was recorded as 80 guests. However, a total
of 200 guest houses in the Bothaville area and neighbouring towns provided
accommodation to approximately 5 400 visitors during NAMPO 2016.
The Rotary Club and the Hervormde Kerk fromBothaville, were the first community
organisations to operate take-away kiosks, manned by volunteers, to help them
The NAMPO Hall under construction in 1998.
The Wall of Remembrance was erected in
1998.
