South Africa

The long awaited audit of state and public owned land is about 98% complete.

Protesters set fire to at least 15 vineyards in De Doorns in the Western Cape this week causing widespread damage, just as the table grape season kicks off.

The mayor of the Mkhondo Municipality in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, apologised to the public in a letter to the local newspaper, Excelsior,for his statements on the investigative television programme, Special Assignment.

Caxton CTP Publishers and Printers has joined Eskom’s energy efficiency campaign, 49M, in an effort to reduce energy consumption.

Effective stock theft solutions are almost always the product of trial and error, plus dollops of community diplomacy.

Employees of local pulp and paper giant, Sappi, face losing their jobs over the next few months. Trade union, Solidarity, said that it would do all in its power to minimise retrenchments and create closure for those being retrenched by finalising the process before Christmas.

Eskom’s request for an annual 16% price increase for the next five years has put pressure on business. Forward-thinking operations are successfully switching to alternative power sources. Robyn Joubert reports.

The Ndlambe district, which stretches from Alexandria to the Fish River in the Eastern Cape, received between 330mm and 590mm of rainfall during two weeks in mid-October, with some farmers recording as much as 290mm in one night.

The price of petrol will decrease by 10c/l on Tuesday night 6 November.

The agricultural union, TAU SA expressed its satisfaction with the settlement agreement reached between the ANC, ex ANC youth leader Julius Malema, AfriForum and itself, over the struggle song containing the words "shoot the Boer".

The South African Revenue Service has refuted allegations that its farm diesel use auditors work on a commission. This allegation has been doing the...

Agricultural economists around the country remain baffled following minister of agriculture Tina Joemat-Pettersson’s announcement at Agri SA’s congress in Johannesburg in October that Land Bank will be offering loans of prime minus 5% to all farmers.