bee an african honey bee beekeeper trading name african honey bee kruger park pty ltd industry beekeeping founded centurion south africa august 10 2007 2007 08 10 founder guy stubbs headquarters centurion south africa website www.africanhoneybee.co.za african honey bee is a social franchise beekeeping micro business incubator 1 established in 2007 . its purpose is to alleviate poverty through sustainable beekeeping by enabling rural families to benefit from the unpolluted prime honey producing vegetation around them . history edit african honey bee was set up by guy stubbs 2 a christian social entrepreneur who has expertise in developmental beekeeping . andrew weeks and kobus visser contributed towards the success of the project . african honey bee supports viable micro beekeeping businesses in southern africa by developing a network of interlinked beekeeping incubator farms that provide access to training mentorship low cost logistics equipment and consumables 3 appropriate technology and access to market . the organization also promotes the benefits of locally produced honey to south african honey consumers and provides marketing opportunities . beekeepers that partner with african honey bee are provided with training mentoring and support ; low cost infrastructure equipment consumables and logistics ; and off take agreements partnerships with large retailers . african honey bee is able to guarantee its product quality to the consumer because it requires the beekeepers to manage their bees according to its afri hive organic beekeeping system its nektar management and traceability technology and its quality standards as well as being managed and mentored by an african honey bee senior beekeeper . prospective beekeepers from rural areas generally between the ages of 18 26 spend 18 months in an incubation programme during which time they are officially employed by the incubator as salaried working interns . during their incubation the interns complete an african honey bee developed program in beekeeping . they work under guidance of senior beekeepers on an african honey bee commercial bee farm . the interns are also assisted to start their own beekeeping business on a small scale with the view of increasing it once they complete the incubation process . at the end of their incubation the beekeepers automatically become shareholders in african honey bee kruger park pty ltd the main operating entity of the group through a stakeholder trust . a beekeeper development trust that owns 10 % of the equity in african honey bee kruger park pty ltd raises grant funding to provide support to partner beekeepers in the form of mentorship training logistics access to low cost equipment and consumables . african honey bee s first incubator bushbuckridge began operations in april 2013 . 4 honey harvested from the incubation farms and procured from partner beekeepers is transported to a central processing plant where it is strained bottled labelled packaged and dispatched for distribution . african honey bee s nektar management and traceability technology will allow consumers to trace their batch of honey back to the beekeeper that produced it and see on google earth where it comes from . the african beekeeper trust development trust has been registered as a npo and pbo providing african honey bee with a vehicle to raise grant funding for and manage beekeeper development . references edit the dti beekeeping boosts rural upliftment . farmers weekly . gesinsafdeling nuwigheid . naspers.com new lowveld honey project is sweet news archived june 30 2015 at the wayback machine . . community work programme government of south africa . a beaultiful apiary african honey bee beekeepers harvest honey african honey bee runs clinics for its beekeeper families without access to sappi land african honey bee would not be where it is today tshego and his mum lonny ndlovu a beekeeper from emoyeni village casteel transferring catch swarms in the sappi plantations the incubation team for 2014 harvesting honey from a roof beekeeping is often very beautiful to observe african honey bee s micro franchise model is built on biblical principles harvesting honey from the afri frame that was developed by african honey bee misi ndlovu collects an egg from her chicken tractor nixon lights a smoker partners makutu makes an average net profit of r1400 per month from his chicken tractor planting the tower garden practical training and mentorship in action retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title african honey bee organization & oldid 742689102 categories beekeepingbusiness incubators of south africahidden categories articles with wayback machine links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 5 october 2016 at 05 37 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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