Crebus

11/12/2025

We are honoured to announce that Nick Serfontein is a winner in the 2025 ARC National Platinum Bull Award category.

A heartfelt thank you to the ARC for this incredible honour, and congratulations to all the winners across the various categories.

Bulls qualify for the 2025 ARC National Platinum Bull Awards only if they:
✅ deliver exceptional performance figures,
✅ are bred from an Elite cow, and
✅ earn a Gold Merit certificate during an ARC Phase C test.

In addition, the bull’s dam must achieve Elite cow status in the same year he receives his Gold Merit award.

This award category, contested for more than three decades, has proudly been sponsored by GMP/Leader Products SA for 15 consecutive years.

28/01/2023

Come and taste our delicious products tomorrow (Sunday, 29 January) at Jackson's Real Food Market and Eatery in Kyalami from 10am-1pm.

07/10/2021

Watch this space!!!

Ferdie Mocke is the Director Agriculture and Environment for Africa Smart City Developers.

Ferdie is an experienced strategic- and business planning facilitator with exposure to different types of businesses in the energy, financial, services, manufacturing, health, environment and agricultural industries. He has extensive private enterprise managerial experience.

During his 17 years with Eskom, he was the Head of Corporate Emergency Preparedness responsible for policy and overseeing the implementation of emergency preparedness plans in all Eskom’s National Key Points. He also served as District Manager as well as Electrification Manager of the Pretoria Distributor.
Since Ferdie left Eskom, he has been actively involved in Disaster Risk Management and Business Continuity Management training and consultation. Ferdie is also one of the specialists responsible for the writing of the National Disaster Management Framework published in 2005. He consulted and acted as programme manager for DME, ESKOM, DBSA, NER on the development of an integrated GIS bases planning model.
He is currently Director of several companies, inter alia:

VIRTUAL INTEGRATED ACADEMY – enabling partner, enhancing business and government performance ensuring a prosperous Southern Africa. VIA strives to develop personal competencies to ensure sustainable & successful businesses enabling economic growth and stability.

CREBUS – providing creative business solutions in the agricultural, food security and energy sector; including investment, financial, integrated banking and insurance solutions.

Pambili Wildlife Group – A world class wildlife and conservation-focused conglomerate that recapitalizes the industry and creates a commercially sustainable model that protects wildlife and promotes viable eco-systems.

28/01/2021

The vegetable garden, maintained by 44 farmworker children, has mushroomed into a giant project on 32 different farms. This is the stuff that dreams are made of!

They say it takes a village to raise a child. This might be true, but every now and then it also takes an army of children to step in where adults have failed. This is the reality of a Western Cape initiative where 44 children are feeding 900 families. The vegetable garden, originally started to...

08/09/2020

31/08/2020

Women in agriculture still face ‘outdated’ perceptions.

Women who work in the agriculture sector are still battling the perception that farming is a ‘man’s job.’

13/08/2020

CREBUS follows a proven community development process that focuses on building resilient communities. The key focus is to ensure food security and sustainable wildlife & eco-tourism sector by creating and supporting sustainable businesses through the implementation of creative business solutions within the total value chain.

Visit our Company Profile for more information:
http://www.crebus.co.za/

27/07/2020

Meet our Team:
Cobus Aucamp (Operations Director)

As the Operations Director, Cobus has vast experience in facilitating and developing different types of business activities. This is especially evident in the field of Game farm development, game breeding, hunting, intensive farming platforms and also in the beef industry with specific reference to feedlots and the abattoir industry. His personal involvement in vast agricultural developments and his background in the educational field lends to the integration of all aspects of the current status of CREBUS.
http://www.crebus.co.za/

20/07/2020

Meet our Team:
Louisa Ralepelle (Stakeholder Management)

Louisa obtained a Hon. Degree in BA Development and Management (Local Government Studies) in 2014. In her field of study, she acquired knowledge on public service delivery, relevant legislation, the role and responsibilities of public service managers, and the diverse and dynamic environment in which public service officials’ functions. She has a passion for helping and serving people. Her dream in life is to change the lives of the less fortunate, especially those residing in local communities. She enjoys working in an environment where she can make a sustainable difference and contribute in the lives of those in need, by ensuring that the services delivered to them are user friendly and can benefit them as a community.
http://www.crebus.co.za/

13/07/2020

Meet our Team:
Ferdie Mocke (Business Development)

Ferdie is an experienced strategic- and business planning facilitator with exposure to different types of businesses in the energy, financial, services, manufacturing, health and agricultural industries. He has extensive private enterprise managerial experience, backed by his education at UNISA and Henley University and is well-known in the disaster management fraternity, inter alia as member of the team responsible for the drafting of the National Disaster Management Framework. During the last ten years he has been actively involved developing integrated agricultural and community development programmes. Following this integrated development approach, the development of agricultural hubs initiate community development and the enhancement of the livelihoods of all the community members.
http://www.crebus.co.za/

06/07/2020

Meet our Team:
Edith Vries (CEO)
Edith has a proven track record of executive level leadership in the public, corporate and not-for-profit sector coupled with a distinguished academic tenure and accomplished research background. Her employment history includes Director General for the Department of Small Business Development in September 2015, Director General at the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF); Executive Head of the Independent Development Trust (IDT); Director of Community Development at the Department of Welfare; and Associate Professor at the University of the Western Cape. Edith Vries holds a Bachelor Degree in Social Science, Honours in Psychiatric Social Work and a Masters Social Science specialising in Clinical Social Work.
http://www.crebus.co.za/