Piet Visser

Piet Visser

Ek is Piet Visser. In 1997 het ek as n algemene werker op Olyfberg begin werk. Twee jaar later het ek begin toesig hou. Daai jare was daar nie veel op Olyfberg nie. Ek en die vorige eienaar van Olyfberg het alles self gedoen om die nodige stukture staande te bring. Ons het ook toe begin plant… Ons het ou wingerde uitgehaal en nuwe wingerde aangeplant. Die jong olyfbome wat vandag volwasse bome is, wat in prag en praal, die boorde, vorm het ons geplant. Die olywe het ons self verwerk en gepers. Jare later het ons amandel en appelkoosbome by geplant.

Dit was en is steeds hardewerk. Dis my plesier om ń bydrae te kon maak om Olyfberg te maak wat dit vandag is. Ek kom elke dag werk toe omdat ek wil werk nie omdat ek moet werk nie.

Ek het begin as ń gewone plaaswerker en is vandag deel van die bestuur van Olyfberg. Ek is dankbaar vir die geleentheid. Dit laat my bevredegend voel om my kennis met die ander plaaswerkers te deel. Almal is gelukkig en Olyfberg doen goed.

My gesin, vrou en twee dogters, woon en werk ook op die plaas.

Olyfberg is my ewige tuiste…

Piet Visser

I am Piet Visser. In 1997 I started working as a general worker at Olyfberg. Two years later I was promoted to supervisor. Those years there was not much on the farm. The previous owner and I did everything to construct the necessary infrastructure to create a conducive farming and production facility. We also started planting… Old vineyards were removed and replaced with new vines. Young olive trees that grew to form the magnificent olive groves that sweep the slopes of Olyfberg we planted back then-our pride and joy! We processed and pressed the olives ourselves in the production facility that we constructed. Years later we planted almonds and apricots for aspart of our expansion.

It was and remains hard work. It is my pleasure and honour to have contributed to help grow Olyfberg to what it has become. I go to work each day not because I have to work, but because I want to!

I started off as a general worker and today I am part of the management team at Olyfberg. I am grateful for the opportunity that I received. Sharing my knowledge with the other workers today gives me a sense of fulfilment. Everyone is happy and Olyfberg is thriving.

My family, wife and two daughters, also live and work on the farm.

I consider Olyfberg my eternal home…