Anna Phosa doesn’t wait for things to come her way – she makes them happen. About eight years ago she bought a tiny smallholding to grow cabbages and farm a few chickens, and, desperate to learn the tricks of the trade, she started networking with other farmers.

Anna Phosa popularly Known as ‘The celebrity pig farmer’ is one of the most famous pig farmers that is making millions from pig farming in Africa.

She stared her farming Business with just 4 pigs in Soweto but her business has grown to the capacity of producing between 100 – 300 pigs a week.

Imagine this: a single piglet, bought for R925, can fatten up to a R7400 payday in just six months. That’s the kind of math that turned Anna Phosa from a Soweto cashier into one of South Africa’s most inspiring agripreneurs.

A successful business, Anna Phosa tells me, needs one to have drive and a clear vision. And she clearly had those two things when setting up Dreamland Piggery and Abattoir in Vanderbijlpark.

USAID Southern Africa promotes job creation through agribusiness entrepreneurs. USAID Director, Jeff Borns, visited Anna Phosa at her piggery business.

Anna Phosa, a trailblazing entrepreneur and pig farming visionary, has transformed the landscape of agriculture in South Africa.

To date, Anna is one of the fewest black woman commercial pig farmer in the country. She’s often been called one of South Africa’s new age “agripreneurs” — entrepreneurs who’re in the agricultural sector.

She started Dreamland Piggery & Abbatoir with only 4 pigs in Soweto, her business has now grown to the capacity of producing between 100 – 300 pigs per week.

DO entrepreneur? Anna Phosa was always a go-getter and proved it’s never too late to reach your goals and exceed even your own expectations. YOU

Anna Phosa is the only black female commercial pig farmer in SA. She hails from Soweto and started Dreamland Piggery & Abattoir in Vanderbijlpark in the Vaal in 2004 after buying four piglets.