Fruit Exports

South Africa offers US a revised trade deal and seeks to diversify exports

Trade Minister Parks Tau said the US’s 30% tariff on exports has necessitated a balanced response between renegotiation, trade diversification and protection from an import surge

Nkateko Joseph Mabasa

5 min read

There has been progress since 1994. South Africa now has a black middle and upper middle class but the means of production remain largely owned by white people and black people swelling the ranks of labour. Photo: Mujahid Saofodien/AFP)

CITRUS

5 DEC 2020

SA’s citrus beats the world’s Covid blues

The stringent lockdown measures resulted in many sectors crumpling, but the citrus industry boomed

Aaisha Dadi Patel

3 min read