The farm, which was once one of the top maize producers in the country was bought by the then Department of Land Affairs and they placed in it a group of people from different communal villages throughout the Eastern Cape. The people had no commercial farming experience and did not receive any assistance from the Department. Ever since the farm was bought by Land Affairs and transferred to the people, it did not operate as a commercial farm but a resettlement communal village. After some in-fighting and struggling, some of the villagers left the farm and went back to where they came from. The few that are left on the run-down farm, which has now become like any other degraded communal village, are struggling to make ends meet.