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Tourism Month: Farmers eagerly anticipate a blooming flower season

Noluthando Ngcakani -
Tourist operators throughout the country have hit the ground running and have welcomed an influx of visitors. In an effort to revive the battered tourism...
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Looming export crisis threatens biggest blueberry harvest ever

Sinesipho Tom -
With South Africa’s biggest crop of blueberries currently being harvested, producers are nervously watching the covid-19-related disruptions of ports and air travel with an...
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Road trip leads economist to discover ‘the heartbeat of our nation’

Ikageng Maluleke -
Being an expert in the agricultural sector as an economist didn't prepare Ikageng Maluleke for what she would find when actually meeting farmers on...
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‘Regenerative agriculture can herald a new dawn for Mzansi farmers’

Naudé Malan -
Farmers, are you ready to re-think your place in the food system? It is necessary to give birth to new non-extractive, but empowering retail...
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‘I always knew I was going to be a farmer since I was 14 years old’

Sinesipho Tom -
While other girls in her community wanted to become ballerinas and go to university, 24-year-old Salomè Scholtz, from a small farming town in the...
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Tannie Susan, the cotton queen of the Northern Cape

Duncan Masiwa -
Meandering through the fluffy cotton fields of a Northern Cape farm you will find the overlapping footsteps of a hardworking woman etched out in...
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‘Start now, start small and grow gradually,’ says self-taught agripreneur

Kyran Blaauw -
 With a little bit of creativity, social media savvy, and a can-do spirit, anything is possible. The 27-year-old Cape Town agripreneur Ncumisa Mkabile has...
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Dreamers take hands to turn dump into food garden

Noluthando Ngcakani -
It is six in the morning and the wind feels like it has a personal vendetta against four men who are braving the cold...
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Natural capital: ‘Let’s put our money where our mouths are’

James Blignaut -
Instantly the blood is drained from the core of my being – syphoned on to the concrete floor. This leaves me paralysed at the...
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From selling veggies at taxi rank to supplying Shoprite

Duncan Masiwa -
With just 65 hectares of land at her disposal, Makhosazane Sambo, together with a group of green-fingered women are slowly, but surely growing Sikhwahlane,...
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Rural violence: ‘If you speak out, you starve’

Noluthando Ngcakani -
The conviction rate in incidents of gender-based violence and femicide are abysmally low in rural communities, says activist Bronwyn Litkie (35). Apart from a lack...
Liewe Lulu

Liewe Lulu: What is marriage material?

Noluthando Ngcakani -
Matrimonially Shunned from Kimberley in the Northern Cape writes… Liewe Lulu, I have been ghosted yet again. Third time in a row for me, sis. I met...
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Kwanalu hands over safety and security memorandum to SAPS

Noluthando Ngcakani -
In a response to the escalation in farm related violence the KwaZulu-Natal Agricultural Union (Kwanalu) has handed over a safety and security memorandum to...
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Three things happening in SA agriculture today, 25 September 2020

Sinesipho Tom -
Good morning, Mzansi. We have come to the end of the week and there is no better way to end off than with a...

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