Food Security

As climate crisis bites, cricket-eating goes global

Article Ann Mikia - 31 Jan 2020

Farming insects requires less water than cattle rearing and they emit fewer greenhouse gases. Here’s why you should make them part of your diet

Academics must reach out to the public

Education Savo Heleta - 24 Jan 2020

By sharing their ideas and knowledge, they can change the world. What’s holding them back?

Record 45mn need urgent food aid in Southern Africa — UN

Article Agency - 18 Jan 2020

Roughly 45-million people in southern Africa are in urgent need of food aid as a result of drought, flooding and economic hardship, the UN...

Garden feeds hundreds in inner city Jo’burg

Article Jacques Coetzee 1 - 29 Oct 2019

Hunger is widespread in SA and malnutrition affects children’s growth. Refiloe Molefe is doing her bit to change this with her food bank project

Where does all the food (waste) go?

Article Tehilla Niselow - 18 Oct 2019

Woolworths places sustainability at its core with its Good Business Journey

More than you can chew

Article Cayleigh Bright - 18 Oct 2019

Food inequality is a complex issue – to achieve food security, we need complex interventions from various sectors of society

The Agricultural Research Council promotes national food security

Article Advertising Supplement - 18 Oct 2019

Unified, proactive action is required to push back the frontiers of poverty

SA is food secure but millions of children are stunted

Article Ofentse Mboweni - 15 Oct 2019

National dietary surveys estimate that 77% of children between the ages of six and 23 months do not receive a minimally acceptable diet

South Sudan’s independent media under pressure

Africa Waakhe Simon Wudu - 10 Jul 2019

Eight years after independence, South Sudan still struggles to address media challenges. Independent journalists continue to fear for their freedom

Feed the hunger disaster

Article Eugene Absolom - 7 Jun 2019

As for a tsunami or any other calamity, corporates and individuals must dig into their pockets

Bedrock of food security destroyed

Article Sipho Kings - 8 Mar 2019

Ecosystem destruction by human activities has reduced plant varieties and other life — and the ability to survive

SA will have to produce 50% more food by 2050 or face crisis — WWF report

Article Duncan Alfreds - 20 Feb 2019

South Africa faces an impending food security crisis if there isn't urgent action to correct unsustainable practices

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Focus on FW de Klerk distracted attention from the troubling state of the nation

Bongekile Macupe - 17 Feb 2020

Some political analysts say President Cyril Ramaphosa is taking too long to mend the country, others says it is the ANC itself that must be fixed

National

Eastern Cape MEC orders graft investigation after two workers killed at troubled district municipality

Chris Gilili - 17 Feb 2020

The killing of two council workers at the Amathole district municipality appears to be linked to tender fraud and corruption

National

South Africans stuck in China are desperate to escape coronavirus ‘prison’

Sarah Smit & Chris Gilili - 14 Feb 2020

But the department of international relations and co-operation claims they are comfortable and taken care of

Press Releases

Response to the report of the independent assessors

IT Web - 17 Feb 2020

VUT welcomes the publishing of the report of the independent assessors to investigate concerns of poor governance, leadership, management, corruption and fraud at the university.

Press Releases

NWU student receives international award

IT Web - 17 Feb 2020

Carol-Mari Schulz received the Bachelor of Health Sciences in Occupational Hygiene Top Achiever Award.

Press Releases

Academic programme resumes at all campuses

IT Web - 17 Feb 2020

Lectures, practicals, seminars and tutorials will all resume today as per specific academic timetables.

Special Reports

Strategic social investments are a catalyst for social progress

Derek Davey - 17 Feb 2020

Barloworld Mbewu enables beneficiaries to move away from dependence on grant funding

Special Reports

We all have a part to play to make South Africa work

Derek Davey - 17 Feb 2020

Powering societal progress demands partnerships between all stakeholders

Special Reports

So you want to be a social entrepreneur?

Derek Davey - 17 Feb 2020

Do the research first; it will save money and time later

Special Reports

Social entrepreneurship means business

Derek Davey - 17 Feb 2020

Enterprises with a cause at their core might be exactly what our economy desperately needs

Special Reports

Looking inwards

Derek Davey - 17 Feb 2020

Businesses are finding tangible ways to give back – but only because consumers demand it