One of us knows the animal. One of us knows you.
Sufyaan is the farmer — a boer in the proper sense. He's out with the flock every day, watching condition, managing the feed, deciding which animals are ready and which need another two weeks. Nabeel takes it from there: the orders, the processing, and making sure the person on the other end of the phone is looked after properly.
Between the two of us, there's no stage of this we hand to a stranger. That wasn't a business decision at first. It's just that once you've raised a lamb from the ewe, you're not comfortable watching it get loaded onto a truck to somewhere you can't see. So we stopped doing that.
An animal that's been handled well its whole life eats differently. You can taste the stress in meat, and you can taste the absence of it.
The farm sits at Hekpoort, in the valley between the Magaliesberg and the Witwatersrand. Quiet, fertile, properly good grazing. It's the kind of place that does half the work for you if you have the sense to stay out of its way. Everything that reaches a table in Klerksdorp starts there.
Everything we've built comes back to that. Treat the animal properly, keep the process in your own hands, and the quality takes care of itself.
— Nabeel & Sufyaan Gora, Hekpoort