Water: how we’re being ripped off
By refusing to read meters, then overcharging on estimates, greedy municipalities are abusing people.
They’re underspending and overspending!
Expensive meetings, incomplete projects and millions unaccounted for while farmers struggle to get finance. Will this be Tina's legacy?
Let’s work with farmers for a change
South Africa's commercial farmers provide 50 million people with quality food. The government has to create conditions that will keep as many farmers as possible on the land and encourage investment in agriculture
Education is power!
Cosas has let the ANCYL know that before we start demanding jobs, we should acquire the necessary skills
How women can save us
Empowering women in agriculture is not only the right thing to do, it's crucial for food security.
Those poor crooks!
A brush with theft involving young boys has Peter Mashala wondering whether poverty really is a cause of crime.
Selecting cattle for breeding
When choosing cattle for breeding, look out for positive traits that will be passed on to the offspring. And avoid negative traits.
Feedlotting cattle
Most cattle marketed through abattoirs in South Africa come from feedlots, where they are fattened in pens or large paddocks.
Pecan nut profits
Do the sum for yourself. Take one mature pecan nut tree of eight years old, producing an average of 20kg/year pecans nut at the unshelled price of R25/kg. Multiply this by a few thousand trees and the desktop millions start flowing, writes Heather Dugmore.
Things to do this year
We all need some goals to work towards, even if it means resolving to have some faith in government's promises to help emerging farmers, writes Phangisile.
Sticking to it
When you experience first-hand the kind of setbacks farmers face, you can only wonder how they do it, and be thankful that they do.
An empowerment success story
Phangisile continues her investigation of the forestry sector and finds a co-op that has empowered emerging black farmers since the 1970s.
