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KwaZulu-Natal premier Sibusiso Ndebele has decided to press ahead with disciplinary action against Dr Jabulani Mjwara, head of department for the province's Department of Agriculture and Environmental Affairs (DAEA), and Petrus Mahlangu, the DAEA's chief financial officer, following allegations of financial mismanagement within the department.
Issue Date: 13 April 2007

UK supermarket chain Tesco's planned “carbon friendly” measures, such as the introduction of carbon-counting labelling and restrictions on airfreighted food stocks, has raised concerns about possible knock-on effects for the South African export industry.
Issue Date: 13 April 2007

Almost a year ago, a group of prominent Afrikaner business leaders launched a study aimed at breaking the current vicious cycle of land reform failures.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

Almost a year ago, a group of prominent Afrikaner business leaders launched a study aimed at breaking the current vicious cycle of land reform failures.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

The Herbicide Resistance Action Committee (HRAC) recently held an emergency meeting in Paarl to address the increased occurrence of herbicide resistance in the Western and how it plans to tackle it.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

A weak currency and keen demand pushed wool prices to their highest levels in four years, with the Cape Wools market indicator rising 4,8% to close at R41,90/kg clean.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

An appeal has been made by Prof HO de Waal of the African Large Predator Research Unit for farmers to supply Free State University's Canis-Caracal Programme with information about smallstock losses on their farms.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

In an effort to improve its support for emerging pork farmers, the SA Pork Producers' Organisation (Sappo) has launched a manual aimed at the informal sector, small-scale pig producer who wishes to upgrade to a commercial operation.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

On a recent visit to Cape Town, Sir Nicholas Stern, the head of the UK government's economics service, said the effects of climate change would be felt globally, but would hit Africa, the continent with the least capacity to cope, the hardest.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

The National Emergent Red Meat Producers' ORGANISATION (Nerpo) has called on government to regulate the pricing of agricultural land.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

A group of South African citizens and non-governmental organisations have declared the country's Draft Biofuels Industrial Strategy flawed after finding government consulted extensively with industry on the document while not giving them the same opportunities.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007

One the key measures being taken by government to protect farmworkers is establishing a Land Rights Management Facility “that will provide legal representation to victims of all forms of land rights infringements”, land and agriculture minister Lulama Xingwana told parliament recently.
Issue Date: 30 March 2007