University. His rural industrialisation plan was launched in the hope that it would encourage a return to traditional values and help attach a high value to education. He approached South Africa's Department of Energy to identify and make use of the area's natural resources for development purposes. Together they identified macadamia as a low-volume, high income crop which would be suitable for the area's physiography. He launched the Eastern Cape's second macadamia farming project in 2015. Between August and December 2015, 50 people had been trained and started working full-time planting the seed, tilling the land and erecting fences. 142 more jobs were created in his collaboration with the Department of Water Affairs and Environmental Affairs to treat water and eradicate invasive alien plants. The project, which already generates income and upskills members of the community was projected to cover 3km2 of land and create an additional 300 jobs, boosting the area's poor economy. In his efforts to improve AmaJingqi's underserved education, nine educare centres were established and registered, giving 217 children access to early learning. AmaJingqi's eight public schools all now have libraries with iPad stations. Youth-run extramural activities include reading, soccer and computer literacy programmes for which the co-ordinators were trained. His partnership with The Services SETA resulted in R20 million of funding to use towards training people in various fields such as enterprise development. He sits on the boards of Indibano to Harvest & Shekinah Developmental Networks and is a member of Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa. Legislation In 2015, he approached the South African Police Service (SAPS) about the rapid spread of stores in Willowvale that were suspected of selling liquor without valid licenses. Dumalisile believed that the mushrooming of illegal taverns would result in more crime in the area. During the operation, in collaboration with the SAPS and the Eastern Cape Liquor Board, 428 litres of liquor was confiscated, nine cases of illegal trade were opened, with fines were issued to the accused. External links See also Nkonkobe Local Municipality Macadamia References Lists of South African people Xhosa people Year of birth missing (living people) Walter Sisulu University alumni Living people