If the history of Nafta is anything to go by, the Southern African Customs Union countries are in for a torrid time if the United States succeeds in closing a similar agreement…
The IDC has been in touch with the World Bank and IMF over the funding of black empowerment in South Africa’s mining industry. The move is likely to prove controversial within…
South Africa’s floundering currency is driving food prices higher and feeding inflation — and prices are expected to continue their upward spiral into next year as the effects of…
Heather Hill, public information officer for the United Nations World Food Programme in Johannesburg, where the food distribution logistics are grinding into action, said donors…
The International Red Cross says the famine in Southern Africa is the worst food emergency in the world since the Balkan crisis in the 1990s. Yet the food emergency affecting…
A Benoni farmer has asked the Pretoria High Court to enforce an order handed down in the Witwatersrand High Court to evict 6 000 families squatting illegally on his farm. The…
A Xhosa initiation school graduate, on condition of anonymity, breaks the silence surrounding this tradition: <i>’Ndiyindoda!</i>" I shout on cue. I am a man. In split seconds…
Large-scale "white" agriculture this week voiced disbelief and confusion over government moves to reintroduce controls over agricultural markets. The planned policy switch was…
