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How to do a plant-based braai

Siyabonga Mngoma -
Whether it’s for health and wellbeing, caring for animals or the climate crisis, plant-based eating is gaining momentum and popping up everywhere – even...
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Dessert Recipes

RECIPE: Chef Katlego Molefi’s Mzansi milk tart

Noluthando Ngcakani -
Kimberley-born Chef Katlego Molefi says he has always been inspired to create out-of-the-box recipes by cooking with the contents of his home pantry. The...
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African Food

Chef Mbombi’s food is entwined with his Xitshonga culture

Chantélle Hartebeest -
Gentle giant Mbonani Daniel Mbombi’s love for African food has crept into the hearts of many South Africans. Widely known for his traditional dishes,...
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Food & Health

Taking the lack out of lactose intolerance

Simphiwe Zondani -
A simple bowl of cereal, pies, ice-cream, mac and cheese and umphokoqo. What do all these diverse foods have in common? They all have...
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African Food

Don’t let closed doors stop you, says young farmer

Duncan Masiwa -
Karabo Rampete’s name could be a synonym for perseverance. After being diagnosed with a liver disease, this feisty 32-year-old refused to sit back and...
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Dinner Recipes

RECIPE: David Higgs’ fishcakes served with chutney and parsley mayonnaise

Chantélle Hartebeest -
David Higgs comes from humble beginnings and he has gradually climbed the culinary ladder to become a well-respected chef in Mzansi. The 49-year-old restaurateur...
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Celebrity Chef

From waiter to celebrity chef

Chantélle Hartebeest -
Pete Goffe-Wood, widely known as Mzansi’s Kitchen Cowboy, started his brilliantly crafted career as a waiter 33 years ago and never looked back. Today the...
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African Food

Magazine legend Dorah Sitole is still cooking

Chantélle Hartebeest -
“I cook to keep our food culture alive,” says 66-year-old Dorah Sitole. The former editor of True Love magazine believes her food will perish...
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Community Food Gardens

‘Neighbourhood Farm’ creates jobs and tackles food security

Chantélle Hartebeest -
“We’re trying to create a mosaic of urban farms that grows food, minds and our communities,” says, Neighbourhood Farm founder and chief executive officer...
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Food & Health

Heart-healthy foods that everyone can afford

Andrea Du Plessis -
Heart Awareness Month is the perfect time to look at some proactive ways of supporting heart health through our diets. Heart disease still is...
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From ‘write-off’ to multi-award-winning international crop exporter

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When 27-year-old Uzair Essack saw his peers graduate two to three years before him, he never imagined that he would one day own a multi-award-winning export company that would gain...
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With the first learners due to return to school after the covid-19 lockdown shortly, experts have urged parents to help their children cope with...
Didiza welcomes these donations and future donations of food parcels, sanitizers and masks by individual farmers, farmer organisations
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Didiza thanks farmers, agri organisations for generosity

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The minister of agriculture, land reform and rural development, Thoko Didiza, has expressed her appreciation for farmers, farmers’ organisations and agribusinesses that go out of their way to show humanity towards the destitute.  May organisations showed ubuntu by donating and contributing food parcels,...
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Covid-19 boosts digitisation of agriculture industry

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The covid-19 shock has propelled the agriculture sector into taking a giant technological leap forward. We’ve seen farmers adopting digital and social media platforms to sell produce directly to...

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