South Africa

While events are being held around the world to celebrate World Rhino Day 2015 today (22 September) to raise awareness of rhino poaching, the celebration at SA’s Isimangaliso Wetland Park World Heritage Site is being vaunted as one of the largest.

Farmers are considered to be one of the more responsible user groups internationally when it comes to groundwater.

Two suspects were apprehended this weekend following the murders of Hansie Raath and two children of farm workers on the farm Palmietkuil in Vredefort on 19 September.

Three South Africans have been caught allegedly trying to smuggle Sable antelope into South Africa.

Suidwes Landbou has elected Hansie Viljoen as chairperson of its board of directors.

A kudu bull has been sold for a record R9,4 million by Dries Visser, from Dries Visser Pure Bred Game.

The National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) in South Africa is investigating one of the national winners in this year’s Female Entrepreneur Awards, a flagship project of the Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), for contravening the animal protection act.

Farmer’s Weekly will be attending the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) beef cattle farmers’ day on Friday, 18 September.

Statistics from the Citrus Growers’ Association (CGA) show that SA citrus is becoming more popular in China.

Nestlé has announced it will use only sustainably sourced cocoa to manufacture all of its KitKat products from the first quarter of 2016.

In a letter to President Jacob Zuma, Johnny Isakson and Christopher Coons, both members of the US senate foreign relations committee, urged the president to lift antidumping duties on US poultry so that poultry exports to SA can resume.

Opening its recent indaba at the Gallagher Estate in Johannesburg, Ndaba Ntsele, president Black Business Council, said the council wanted to influence government policies in order to have "remarkable SMMEs (small, medium and micro enterprises)".

Four suspects appeared in the Zastron magistrate’s court after two failed farm attacks in the district.

Potatoes SA (PSA) has released its latest crop estimate figures. From January to August about 7,9 million bags more were sold on markets than the same time last year.

The Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association (TBA) recently hosted its 2015 national sale of two-year-old racehorse stock at Gosforth Park, Johannesburg.

Last week hundreds of employees from Ceres Fruit Growers (CFG), one of South Africa’s biggest apple and pear packaging and storage companies, went on strike demanding higher wages.

Slow economic growth and the difficulties facing South Africa as a result of energy supply constraints should not only be seen as challenges.

Free State Agriculture has petitioned the South African Employment Commission of the Department of labour to implement an inflation-related wage increase for the agriculture sector for the next three years.

An aquaculture project in Hamburg in the Eastern Cape, established by the department of agriculture, has harvested and sold its first crop of 260 dusky kob fish, commonly known as kabeljou.

Hundreds of employees from Ceres Fruit Growers, one of South Africa’s biggest apple and pear packaging and storage companies, have gone on strike demanding higher wages.