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Simmering grievances can enable a strong leader to easily lead your employees to commit violence, so you have to be prepared for such an eventuality.

For the sake of food security, it’s vital that today’s farmers pass their skills on to their children.

The government and farmers need to shift their paradigm to achieve the objectives of a stable, food secure and safe future for all South Africans. In delivering his presidential address at the Agri SA conference, Johannes Möller pinpointed some areas that need rethinking.

There’s something special about one-pot cooking. This hearty combination of beans, onions and smoked pork belly needs only a wedge of bread to soak up the flavour-rich juices.

When the OECD makes statements about the tax practices of a country, the tax community sits up and takes notice.

The South African grain market is set to benefit from increased price discovery through a move by the JSE’s Commodity Derivatives Division to trade Safex silo receipts in completion of a futures contract.

The concept is already popular with 11 million South Africans. Are there enough farmers among them?

The SA Institute of Valuers (SAIV) agrees with Tshepo Diale (24 February) and Andrew Emslie (8 June) that the current land reform process leaves much to be desired.

This over-the-top piece of Euro-cuisine has a lot going for it. Firstly, lots of flavours. Secondly, lots of colour. Thirdly, its surprisingly easy to cook. Finally, its a dinner party on one platter. No additions necessary, apart from a crisp, white wine.

Vast quantities of food are thrown away daily, yet people go to bed hungry. We need a rethink.

With the deluge of bad news which assails our lives, my optimism sometimes wavers. The London Paralympics has given me back my perspective.

With the current global financial turmoil and concern over food security, it’s time to press government for support, Kwanalu president Brian Aitken said at the union’s congress in Pietermaritzburg on 13 September.

Call it what you will, this meatball veld fire with its powerful Indian flavours will bring tears of homesickness to the eyes of KZN citizens exiled elsewhere in this great Republic of ours. Here is great flavour, character-building chilli heat, and an easy cooking all-in-one splendid recipe.

The Western Cape department of agriculture, assisting the Genadendal Farmers’ Union under the 2008 Flood Relief Scheme, has built two permanent water reservoirs near Voorstekraal, on the outskirts of Genadendal.

As agriculture remains the main source of employment and income in rural areas, where the majority of the world’s poor and hungry people live, rural agricultural cooperatives play a key role in feeding the world.

Stock theft is rampant in SA. The only way to fight it successfully is to beef up the sentences.

How not to find yourself on the losing end when going into business or undertaking a merger.

The energy minister recently gazetted the mandatory blending of biofuels at minimum concentrations of 5% for biodiesel and 2% to 10% for bio-ethanol. Once outstanding issues are resolved, this should kick-start investment in biofuels, says biofuels agricultural advisor Fanie Brink.

Apple pie is the beginning of all fruit-based pies. American songs and movies are full of it. So here, in partial salute to apple pie, we have an apple tart, a tart being a pie without a lid. The pastry is a cinch and the caramelised sugar a new skill just waiting to be mastered.

Ill-informed consumers who demand less crop protection chemicals and have irrational fears of genetically modified food are a risk to farmer’s survival. Who is taking responsibility to ensure that the truth about food is getting to the consumer, asks Lindi van Rooyen.