each household received a subsidised amount of twenty thousand rand from the then department of land affairs to plough into the project the project exists because the community wanted to develop a successful black owned piggery enterprise in polokwane municipality to contribute to the economic growth of the country this enterprise can be used as a model to pave the way for other black emerging farmers to enter the piggery industry this initiative is part of the anc government strategy to strengthen the partnership between government and rural communities to focus on rural development and fight poverty i_letter