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Recipe: A Cape Malay classic with a veggie twist

Dané Vermeulen -
Like many other South Africans, I will be spending my Easter weekend with friends and family, sitting around a dinner table packed with traditional...
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Easter memories: ‘The secret battle of the pickled fish’

Lucinda Dordley -
This Good Friday, Food For Mzansi’s new chief reporter, Lucinda Dordley, reminisces about her family’s Easter memories. And she secretly wonders who between her...
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Liewe Lulu

Farmer: How do I break up with my mooch of a friend?

Noluthando Ngcakani -
Hosted, from George in the Western Cape writes… Liewe Lulu…What do you do when your friend is a user?I met her in Johannesburg while I...
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Recipes

Pickled Fish: Liquid gold sauce that brings families together

Chad January -
Food that brings us together almost always has a history or at least some type of back story or memory attached to it. For the...
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Cookbook

After millennia, Jewish Passover is still a living feast

Noluthando Ngcakani -
Celebrating Passover, millions of observing Jewish people have gone to great lengths to put out their mouth-watering spreads on the Seder table during the...
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Recipes

Recipe: Make Scotch fillet and Pesachdikke cake

Noluthando Ngcakani -
The last days of the Jewish festival of Passover are coming up. Cookbook author and Johannesburg kosher foodie Sharon Lurie shares two recipes she...
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Food Facts

Food labels: How to spot the bull they sell you

Dona Van Eeden -
Here’s a scenario:  It’s a Saturday morning and you are in the supermarket doing your weekly grocery shopping. You've recently tried to shop more sustainably and you’re...
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Mzansi Flavour

Easter: Down memory lane with sommelier and writer

Noluthando Ngcakani -
Celebrating holidays and traditions like Easter in a state of lockdown may be a norm we have no choice but to adapt to, but...
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Recipes

Recipes: Celebrate Easter memories with these dishes

Noluthando Ngcakani -
Christmas is great and all, but if you ask us, the best holiday feast of them all is Easter lunch. Fish? Hot cross buns? And...
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African Food

E Cape entrepreneur takes amaranth to wider market

Candice Pearce -
Indigenous plant lover Regina Kasongo has managed to turn her love for indigenous foods into a sustainable business. She grows amaranth, a crop that...
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Farmer's Inside Track

Podcast: Exploring the gender pay gap in agriculture

Dona Van Eeden -
Statistics South Africa’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey for the fourth quarter of 2020 paints a gloomy picture related to the country's unemployment status. Agri SA...
Thoko Didiza, the minister of agriculture, land reform and rural development, has welcomed progress made in the development of the Agriculture and Agro-processing Master Plan to help move South Africa forward. Photo: GCIS/Flickr
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Didiza says ‘role of extension officers to change fundamentally’

Duncan Masiwa -
The role of agricultural extension officers and the service they provide to Mzansi farmers will dramatically change in the next few months. This, says...
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Conditions of Free State roads negatively impacts farmers

Dona Van Eeden -
The past year has been particularly challenging for farmers across the board, but those in the Free State are battling more hurdles than most....
KwaZulu-Natal premier Sihle Zikalala has told farming communities that he supports their call for a commission of inquiry to investigate tension between farmers, farmworkers and tenant farmers in the province. Photo: Supplied/Food For Mzansi
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Premier calls for probe amid growing tension on farms

Sinesipho Tom -
After two farmworkers were killed in Mpumalanga, the KwaZulu-Natal premier has now also warned of mounting tension between farmers and their labourers in his...
This evening, the 39-year-old Doug Osler won a cash prize from Free State Agriculture and gift vouchers from Kynoch and Brand New SA. Photo: Supplied/Food For Mzansi
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Free State, meet your new Young Farmer of the Year

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The winner of Free State Agriculture’s Young Farmer of the Year competition, Doug Osler, this evening pledged his commitment towards building the agricultural sector...

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