Tag: disaster management

National risk management should receive urgent attention, according to experts who spoke during a recent webinar on the impact of recent disasters on South Africa. Photo: Supplied/Food For Mzansi

Tough times in agriculture ‘could have been cushioned’

by Tiisetso Manoko

9th May 2022

SA's farming sector has faced some tough times lately, but some of the hardship could have been warded off had the country been better at getting the basics right. This ...

South Africa is facing unrest on a scale that has been rarely seen since the birth of democracy in 1994. Photo: Marco Longari/AFP/Getty Images

Uninsured smallholders need a buffer against disaster

by Malapane Thamaga

20th Aug 2021

THOUGHT LEADER: Why is National Treasury not giving attention to the 2019 Agricultural Insurance Proposal that SAIA submitted? Perhaps it's time to revisit it, says economist Malapane Thamaga.

Free State MEC for agriculture and rural development William Bulwane during a site-visit to some of the Bultfontein farms damaged by heavy rains. He was accompanied by Tankiso Matsholo, mayor of the Tswelopele Local Municipality, and councillor Motsabinyana Raseu. Photo: Supplied

Dilapidated roads: Free State pleads for help

by Dona Van Eeden

16th Jan 2021

If the Free State government doesn’t urgently maintain and repair the province’s road network, economic activity might soon come to a grinding halt. Severe floods in the last two weeks ...

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