Eskom is in an increasingly desperate state. There is little hope that South Africa will have a secure and reliable electricity supply for years.

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The locust swarms that have damaged and devoured thousands of hectares of grazing in the Karoo and parts of the Sarah Baartman area have now moved into the Amathole district.

SA is a diverse and sizeable country of 122-million hectares. But there is a commonality in challenges that farmers and agribusiness raise regardless of the provinces or municipalities.

Background The Expropriation Bill is now at a very critical stage in its enactment.

The concept of private property came about as a result of colonial efforts to disenfranchise African people, advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi told people gathered at The Forge’s talks on land in South Africa, scheduled to run throughout the month. 

With March the first full month of elevated global grain and oilseed prices due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the recent release of March food inflation figures in South Africa was keenly anticipated.