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Buzzing: Mokgadi Mabela founded Native Nosi after she couldn’t keep up with her former colleagues’ orders for her dad’s honey and she needed to secure her own supply. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ANXIETY

Q&A Sessions: Meet Mokgadi Mabela — the DJ, beekeeper and mother delivering sweet, sweet honey from Native Nosi

Mokgadi Mabela is the bee lady whose love for good honey has blossomed into a business. She tells us about her genius dad and her late introduction to bees

  • Athandiwe Saba
7 min read
Honeybee harvesting pollen. WWF is piloting beekeeping and ecotourism initiatives in the Madagascan village of Kivalo. (Alamy Stock Photo)
BEEKEEPING

Climate adaptation proves the bee’s knees for fishermen in Madagascar

In Kivalo, where cyclones, overfishing and rising seas threaten livelihoods, beekeeping offers an unlikely alternative to fishing.

  • Bhekisisa Team
  • Emilie Filou
5 min read
Ivili Loboya partners with people and organisations across communities
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT

Employment and opportunity through quality

Investing in the Future Job Creation and Development Award. Winner: Ivili Loboya

  • Advertorial Supplement
4 min read
Elephants that have been stung by bees will avoid them in future
BEEKEEPING

Bees deployed in Tanzania’s skirmish with elephants

The concept of a bee fence offers a holistic approach to humans living in harmony with elephants in search of food or following migratory routes.

  • Oliver Milman
3 min read
Bee farmer Brendan Ashley Cooper shows some of his hives that have been infected by American foulbrood disease.
BEEKEEPING

Honeybee crisis catches SA off-guard

An outbreak of foulbrood disease has killed 40% of the Western Cape’s bee population this year, threatening SA’s R20-billion agriculture industry.

  • Sipho Kings
5 min read