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Early projections suggest that the La Niña weather phenomenon, which brought above-normal rainfall across the summer crop-growing areas of South Africa and much of Southern Africa, leading to higher crop yields, has ended.
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Global wine exports declined significantly in 2025. As reported by wine industry analyst Del Rey/AWM on March 27, 2026, international wine trade saw a decrease of 6.3% in value and 4.7% in volume compared to 2024. This represents a loss for the sector of approximately €2.26bn and 4.65m hl.
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We are entering a busy period in South Africa's agricultural production cycle.
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Under a dysfunctional government, every state function eventually has to be outsourced if it is to keep working. In South Africa, security, health, electricity, water, road and rail, and even criminal prosecutions have, to a significant degree, become the responsibility of private, non-traditional actors.
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Four weeks since the war in the Middle East broke out, it remains unclear how long the conflict will continue, how bad the damage to infrastructure will be and how long it will take to undertake repairs in the affected countries.
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Under legal pressure from two farmer unions and a business lobby group, Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen has submitted last-minute proposals that could, in practice, open the door to farmers privately sourcing and procuring foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccines, subject to veterinary direction.
