Striking Clover workers to get overdue bonuses by Friday
Workers have welcomed a promise by Clover SA to pay overdue bonuses as a win in the ongoing dispute between the company and workers. This follows a picket by hundreds…
Centre for Mineral Biogeochemistry set up at UFS
A Mineral Biogeochemistry Research Infrastructure Platform, the Centre for Mineral Biogeochemistry, has been set up at the Bloemfontein campus of the University of the Free State (UFS). The construction project,…
Landbou Radio – 11 January 2022
“The success of a farming business is not it’s size or how long you have been farming. The secret lies therein that you must live, eat, sleep and be actively…
’Millions’ of brown locusts sighted in the Karoo
South Africans have taken to Social Media to share videos of ‘millions’ of brown locusts that were swarming parts of the Northern Cape, Eastern Cape, and the Western Cape on…
FairPlay welcomes provisional anti-dumping duties on chicken imports
FairPlay has welcomed the imposition of provisional anti-dumping duties on chicken imports from Brazil and four European Union countries – Denmark, Ireland, Poland and Spain. The provisional duties will remain…
SA Breweries mulls mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations for staff
South African Breweries (SAB), part of Anheuser-Busch InBev, said on Tuesday, 4 January that it was looking at making Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory for staff across its operations, the latest company…
Agroecology needs coherent governance and bottom-up action
For all its ecological and social credentials, agroecology as an agricultural practice faces an uphill struggle in a South African policy environment largely stacked in favour of the ‘Big Food’…
Harnessing the power of agritech to help SA’s smallholder farmers
As part of its multi-million Rand investment in agriculture, Microsoft South Africa has selected The Awareness Company as the beneficiary of its AgriTech Programme. The Awareness Company will develop and…
SA beef industry outlook shows promise despite challenges
The beef processing sector in South Africa has experienced its fair share of ups and downs in 2021, battling the fall-out from Covid-19 like severe supply chain backlogs, more pressure…
Farm workers in Northern Cape protest over alleged inhumane living conditions, abuse
Farm workers in the lower Orange River region of the Northern Cape have started picketing at four farms in the Augrabies area near Kakamas about what they say are deplorable…