Tag: Rico Basson

While forecasts for 2022 points to another good year for agriculture in Mzansi, the chief economist at the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa, Wandile Sihlobo, says he is concerned ...

Wine lovers in the Western Cape have to wait a little while longer before to hear whether premier Alan Winde will get the green light to overrule the National Coronavirus ...

Today, Vinpro finally heads to the Cape High Court to try and have the ban on alcohol sales lifted. The four bans over the last 18 months have wiped out ...

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 ...

The wine industry body Vinpro has welcomed the announcement that the National Ports Authority was now an independent subsidiary of Transnet. This is crucial, believes Vinpro, because Mzansi’s port terminals ...

While they are relieved to have dodged another blanket clampdown on booze sales, the alcohol industry has levelled various points of criticism against the new Level Three lockdown sales restrictions ...

Wine industry body Vinpro's challenge to the decision-making behind prolonged liquor bans over the past year will have to wait until August 2021, due to the late filing of documents ...

While the wine industry was celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stellenbosch Wine Routes, a world-class site for vineyard training and research was also unveiled in the Cape Winelands. The Welgevallen ...

With a possible third wave of Covid-19 on the horizon, the South African alcohol industry has clapped back at government by releasing the findings of an independent study questioning the ...

While finance minister Tito Mboweni cheered the agricultural sector in his 2021 budget speech, it seems the sector was left rather disillusioned. Agri SA executive director Christo van der Rheede ...