Escaping to the landscape
Escaping to the landscape
Gardner: Mr Mosito Chesane
Dieketseng Motsepe
The Vaal University of Technology (VUT) gives recognition to the employees of VUT who contribute in maintaining the standards of our campuses. Mr Mosito Chesane is one such person and has been with VUT since 2016 as a gardener. He shared that he is happy with his job and his experience has been one of learning and self-discovery as he has faced many challenges that he has had to overcome. He has learned to embrace these and see them as lessons for the future.
He explained that through the years he has come to love landscaping and it provides him with a sense of peace as it relaxes him and has taught him patience. Landscaping has been his escape from the stresses of life and has helped him to take a step back and reflect. He says that he loves watching nature and taking care of plants because they need nurture and attention and you have to know how to build fertile, healthy garden soil that will keep plants alive and healthy.
“Working in landscaping requires patience and a person should love themselves as plants need love, care, attention and respect,” he said.
He hopes he can enroll in a course that is focused on landscaping so as to improve his skills and his love for it and to one day become a supervisor within his line of work.