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Promising: Wheat prices have moderated this year, down by roughly 4% year-on-year.
AGRIBUSINESS

Despite heavy rains, Western Cape’s wheat crop looks promising

Warmer, drier weather in the coming weeks would boost production in the Western Cape where two-thirds of South Africa’s wheat is grown.

  • Wandile Sihlobo
3 min read
“No other person would be permitted to get away with the kind of obfuscation contained in the president’s affidavits,” Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane said in court papers. (Phill Magakoe/The Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images)
FRANNY RABKIN

Mkhwebane loses again, this time over Vrede dairy probe

High court says public protector’s failures when probing Gupta-linked project "impacted on the rights of the poor and vulnerable in society”

  • Franny Rabkin
4 min read
ACE MAGASHULE

Dissent and disgust at hearing on Scorpions’ future

A farmers’ group on Thursday withdrew from a parliamentary public hearing on the future of the Scorpions, saying it turned into an ANC meeting.

  • Andre Grobler
2 min read