While having improved from the first quarter of the year, South Africa’s agricultural trade surplus narrowed by 30% in the second quarter of this year compared to the corresponding period in 2018, recorded at US$789 million.

Medium-term pain for long-term gain as Tzaneen Dam storage capacity improvement project finally gets moving again Letaba Valley in critical water situation. 

As South Africa establishes itself ever more securely in the modern world, so South African farmers must adapt to a set of new challenges. 

South Africa’s land panel finally produced its report at the end of July. At 144 pages it’s an impressive document, making all the right noises. South Africa, like Zimbabwe, left the land issue for too long. 25 years after freedom, at least now a serious move is being made in South Africa. But will it make a difference?

Although South Africa’s economy has recovered from the previous quarter’s economic performance with a 3.1% quarter-on-quarter seasonally adjusted growth rate (q/q saar), agriculture did not contribute to the improvement.

At Durban Harbour no containers will be loaded today and all roads in the greater Durban area are very quiet in response to threats of violence against truck drivers.