COVID-19

The Black Tobacco Farmers Association (BFTA) has confirmed that they have stopped pursuing legal action against the ban on cigarette sales under the covid-19 lockdown and has instead decided to...

Though the opening of exports and partial retail sales under the level 4 lockdown regime brings some relief for South African cotton producers, the covid-19 pandemic and resultant lockdown measures...

In a crisis, the urgency of need must trump market barriers. Now more than ever businesses must come together and act to save the vulnerable among us.  Covid-19 has split...

Tobacco farmers have come out on the side of British American Tobacco (BATSA) in the confrontation between the multinational cigarette manufacturer and the South African government over the extended ban...

Coming on top of a reality where millions of South Africans were unemployed even before the start of the covid-19 crisis, the extension of lockdown regulations that make informal trade all but impossible creates an extremely dangerous situation in Mzansi,...

As South Africa enters its fifth consecutive week of the covid-19 lockdown the nation’s farmers have, once again, pledged their support for unprecedented efforts to try and curb the further...

Restaurants have been one of the hardest hit businesses affected by the fast-spreading, faceless coronavirus. Chefs and other employees in the professional kitchen are experiencing great financial uncertainty as a result of the global pandemic.  Katlego Mlambo (30), head chef at the Marabi Jazz club in Johannesburg’s vibrant Maboneng Precinct, says the hospitality...

“There is no returning to normal after covid-19, but there is a path forward – and that path is to transforming the South African food systems,” says Gauteng farmer Mandla...

Full disclosure. I’m craving junk food. I miss the convenience of grabbing a pizza or burger. It doesn’t help that my social media timeline is bombarded with cries for Mzansi fast food joints to be reopened, because hey, I can seriously hear the McDeez fries calling my name.  ...

Now, more than ever before, health advisors are overwhelming us with advice about something we’ve been told by our mothers since childhood – wash your hands and wash your fresh...