Positive ways of lessening inequality
A recent newspaper report indicated that 1% of the world’s population would soon be wealthier than the rest of us combined.
Calling for more risk-takers
Recently, while driving between Jamestown and Molteno in the Eastern Cape on our way to visit my in-laws, my family and I came upon an astonishing sight – scores of...
Social media can work for your business
If you have an agricultural service or product to sell, you need social media.
Are we nurturing our future farmers?
The matric results confirmed that my son’s career choice of becoming an engineer (he wants to build robots) is a good one.
Shopping at online app stores
Some apps are available only in certain countries, so a change in ID is needed.
Keep your eyes on the future
This time last year, large parts of South Africa were experiencing a drought said to be the worst in living memory.
Let’s join the renewable energy bandwagon
With the latest spate of load shedding on everyone’s lips, I once again realised it’s a crying shame that we don’t harness sunny and windy South Africa’s potential to be...
Carols by candlelight – in more ways than one!
I love to sing and I love the glow of candles, so, unsurprisingly, I enjoy carols by candlelight.
What’s in a brand?
Knowing what brand of wine we are drinking influences most of us in how we taste and enjoy it.
Transformation: is everyone on board?
Depending on whom you ask, Theo de Jager’s being voted out of the deputy presidency at AgriSA can be interpreted as anything from serious internal differences within the organisation to...
Can we afford a national minimum wage?
As thousands of matriculants and university students sit down to write their final exams, I bet they’re thinking about the day they can begin making their own way in the...
Change: are you up to speed?
Change is never easy. It’s far less stressful to stick to the familiar.
It’s about seeking solutions
It is often said that the most innovative and creative solutions to problems are found during tough times. And in many cases, new solutions change the way we live or...
Our wireless future
When I look at the latest technological trends and developments in agriculture, I can’t help but wonder to what extent farming in the future will be done by remote control.
Not reporting on problems won’t make them go away
Gwede Mantashe’s comments at the recent Afasa congress regarding the media, and Farmer’s Weekly specifically, left me flabbergasted.
Now real negotiations can begin
Last week saw South Africa’s two largest agricultural farmer unions hold their annual conferences, virtually back to back and at the same venue.
Ebola’s scare factor
The economic effects of contagious, incurable, fatal diseases are well known. During the avian flu epidemic in Asia about 10 years ago, restaurants were empty, and foreign investors and travellers...
Are farm workers’ rights a convenient diversion?
Cyril Ramaphosa’s reprimand of farmers in the Boland must have come as a shock. Wasn’t Ramaphosa supposed to be ‘a champion for commercial farmers’?
Welcome to the drone era
If you look into a city-sky, you’ll probably see a plane or a helicopter once in a while. Fast forward to a few years from now, city slickers will be...
