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At some point, even the greatest tragedies become old news and a protracted crisis loses its punch.

Internet connectivity has improved significantly throughout the country in recent years, opening up a range of entertainment options.

Over the past two decades, commercial farmers in South Africa have made significant strides in improving the working and living conditions of farmworkers.

The SABC’s Hlaudi (Good-news) Motsoeneng has joined the philosophical school of thought popular with political leaders such as President Jacob Zuma and EFF leader Julius Malema, which contends that if you are unfamiliar with something, it simply does not exist.

Someone recently showed me a photograph that a friend of theirs had posted on Facebook, showing an aerial view of a city burning.

Facebook can be daunting for those farmers who say they were born BC (before computers). However, it’s an excellent way to share ideas with other farmers and stay in contact with family members.

The United Kingdom (UK) voted on Friday to withdraw from the European Union (EU), sending the pound and the rand diving, and David Cameron, former UK Prime Minister, running.

A few months ago, I wrote about Zero Carbon Food, an urban, vertical farming initiative in London using hydroponic systems and LED technology in an old World War II bomb shelter where they harvest up to 20 000kg of greens a year.

It was the Greek philosopher, Plato, who first said “necessity is the mother of invention”, but Albert Einstein later famously changed the phrase slightly to “necessity is the mother of all invention”.

South Africa’s economy has stagnated, and by the time you read this, Standard and Poor’s may well have downgraded the country’s credit rating to...

Sending or sharing files over the Internet or cellphone networks can be a tedious affair, especially with a poor rural network connection.

More and more evidence suggests that the actual demand for agricultural land in South Africa is not only being vastly inflated by those in power, but that government presently owns enough land to meet current demand.