Rimani Agricultural Primary was established in 1998 and main activities included the selling and growing of soft fruit and vegetables. Originally there were four women working on the farm and wished to expand, to increase their household’s disposable income.

Since then they registered as a cooperative (2007/000618/24). Rimani Agricultural Primary Cooperative is located at Ezekhaya, near Shilubane village within the Greater Tzaneen Local Municipality. Tzaneen consists of 33 wards, with a high rate of unemployment as the industrial activity is unable to absorb all employable people in the area.

The population in Greater Tzaneen Local Municipality is reliant on child support grants, old age pensions and the selling of fruit and vegetables, owing to the closing down of the large number of factories and the two colleges in Tzaneen. HIV/AIDS and the inability to study further after matric exacerbate unemployment.<