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While retail sales plunge, agriculture shows great promise

Staff Reporter -
Figures released on 22 July showed that South Africa's retail sales plunged by a record 50,4% in April and 12% in May on an...
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Between the Headlines

Indigenous knowledge is a natural resource for rural farmers

Qinisani Qwabe -
Current discourses around transformation and decolonisation have led to the realisation of the importance of indigenous knowledge systems, from folk music to the decolonisation...
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News

FARM ATTACKS: ‘Can someone in government please stand up?’

Elton Greeve -
Can someone in government please stand up, act decisively, and stop the loss of life? In this exclusive Food For Mzansi opinion piece, Elton...
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Between the Headlines

Food clubs: Let’s turn the tables on SA’s deteriorating health

Andrew Ardington -
Sick people get sicker much easier and much faster than healthy people. It is really that simple. Once the first line of defence in...
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Editors Choice

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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Between the Headlines

Youth + tech = a food secure future

Lunathi Hlakanyane -
It is little secret that young people are apathetic to agriculture. Many simply do not see farming as a viable career or livelihood path....
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Editors Choice

Thousands lifted through innovative KZN land project

Sinesipho Tom -
Nokuthula Gcabashe (70) and Thulile Elsie Mzimela (63) from Mbongolwane, a small town in the green hills of King Cetshwayo District Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal,...
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Gauteng’s water crisis now threatens food sustainability

Sinesipho Tom -
Gauteng’s water sources continue to be under threat, warned Agri Gauteng president Dr Willem Pretorius at its Young Farmer webinar presented yesterday in partnership...
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Between the Headlines

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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Economic Growth

Don’t fall into ‘junk status’ thinking, warns economist

Staff Reporter -
South Africans must guard against falling into a "junk status vision" of our country's potential while there are so many opportunities generated by a...
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Mzansi cheers as Ramaphosa allows booze, ciggie sales

Staff Reporter -
After 142 days in the world’s strictest lockdown, South Africa has allowed the sale of alcohol and cigarettes in a desperate attempt to restart...
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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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AgriSETA Learner Connect: Meet a microbiologist and plant pathologist

Staff Reporter -
Nongcebo Sandra Memela (32) never doubted her field of study or career choice. She’s always loved science, and today she is a microbiologist and...
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SA, say hallo to 62 new citizen journalists!

Duncan Masiwa -
South Africa, get ready to meet the final 50 who have made the cut for the Sinelizwi citizen journalism programme. *insert drum roll here*...
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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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