Tag: Covid-19 lockdown

Could any good have come from South Africa's traumatic pandemic lockdowns? If the good comes in the form of wisdom, resilience and preparedness, then Mzansi's farmers say yes. Farmers share ...

A new survey shows that up to 80% of stores in some provinces now sell cigarettes at prices below the minimum collectible tax rate. This means that these products are ...

TRENDING: From boosting illicit cigarette sales to cruelly severing informal traders' livelihoods - these are the pandemic-related mistakes that affected farmers and food entrepreneurs most... and no one wants to ...

Patricia Pillay is changing the face of Mzansi’s vibrant beer industry. She chats to Food For Mzansi about initiatives to empower young black brewers, and government’s lack of support to ...

A chorus of voices is calling for President Cyril Ramaphosa and his National Command Council to end Mzansi's two-year state of disaster for good. The agricultural sector has joined in.

Covid-19-related restrictions have ruined many craft beer and wine businesses, but it also gave birth to a new wave of consumers seeking black-owned alcoholic products. Brewmaster Apiwe Nxusani-Mawela believes this ...

This week's episode of Farmer's Inside Track features agri minister Thoko Didiza, a gun licence expert who answers frequently asked questions, Sibonginkosi Msipha of the famous Mama Bongi cookies, and ...

For Jean Carlo Ongansie, a Cape Town-born law enforcement official and singer, food is so much bigger than sustenance. It is a way of life. For him, “cooking is an ...

The wine industry body Vinpro has launched an urgent interim interdict application to lift the ban on the sale of wine in the Western Cape in a bid to seek ...

“This illegal trade is taking food from our mouths and killing our businesses.” These are the words of Zachariah Motsumi, spokesperson for the South African Tobacco Transformation Alliance, who blames ...