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The increase in, for example, white and yellow maize, us now at 7.75 million tonnes and 6.91 million tonnes, 16% higher than the 2023-24 season.
AGRICULTURE

South Africa expects an ample grain harvest this year

The recovery of crops bodes well for consumers as prices should come down

  • Wandile Sihlobo
3 min read
The country must rethink its agricultural marketing and promotion approach in its export effort. Photo: Peter Adams/Avalon/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)
AGRICULTURE

South African agriculture on sound footing, despite Trump tariffs

We do need to focus on the tariffs but we should not ignore other essential interventions for the long-term growth of local agriculture

  • Wandile Sihlobo
4 min read
AGRICULTURE

Crop data reaffirms South African agriculture’s recovery path

This could be good for consumers as prices drop.

  • Wandile Sihlobo
4 min read
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (C) and Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs of South Africa, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma (R), speak to various grieving family members at the United Methodist Church of South Africa in Clermont, near Durban, on April 13, 2022. (Photo by PHILL MAGAKOE/AFP via Getty Images)
BHEKISISA HIGH SCHOOL

Ramaphosa promises aid to families devastated by KwaZulu-Natal floods

Premier Sihle Zikalala says a state of disaster has been declared in the province, because of the heavy flooding

  • Bongeka Gumede
3 min read
FLOODS

Heavy rain expected in four provinces

Heavy rains are expected to hit at least four provinces on Thursday, says the South African Weather Service.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read
CHINA

Storms and rain batter China

Torrential rains left at least 14 dead in China as Typhoon Hagupit battered the south and another storm pounded quake-hit central Sichuan province.

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read