Goats grazing alongside the road signal the agricultural aspect of the rural areas. While the rural villages depend on livestock and gardens for much of their food, a career in farming is not an aspiration many of South Africa's youth are looking forward to.
On the other hand, on the drive in I noticed many signs for estates - the game reserves and cattle-grazing land of wealthy Afrikaaners. While Blacks were expected to subsist on the fruit of the homelands during apartheid, they were given the least-usable land, and too little of it, forcing them to overgraze and cultivate their land, while neighboring Whites had much more land and livestock then necessary.
