Beauty Manake is a Botswanan politician and educator. She is the current Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry in Botswana, having been appointed to the position in 2019 by the current president of Botswana, Mokgweetsi Masisi. Her term began on 13 February 2022.[1][2]
When I started working, my mother was making four times what I was earning so I was like ‘I have been reading a lot and this woman hasn’t been in school, not even one day and she is making a lot of money, is this how I am going to continue in this corporate world while my mother is out there, being her own boss, making a lot of money?’ Basically that’s how I entered into farming
I entered into farming not because I was passionate about it. I didn’t know anything about farming. I entered into farming because I wanted money and I wanted it quick
My mother was trading in vegetables; she was importing vegetables and fresh fruits from South Africa. During holidays, I would go with her to South Africa and the most interesting thing is that when crossing over to South Africa, the minute you reach the border, everything starts being green. That means farming; there are so many big farms and people there. It’s all green,
Now, I’m passionate about it, I live it, I eat it, I do everything to do with farming, For me, walking into a field every day and seeing how green it is, smelling the smell of oranges, it’s therapeutic.
Out of the corporate world, into the farm: Botswana’s Beauty Manake shows agriculture still pays, 7 December 2015 by staff
