News in South Africa 17th November: 1. Egg supply is steadily increasing: The supply of egg and poultry meat is steadily increasing following shortages triggered by a bird flu outbreak that began in April, the department of agriculture, land reform and rural development said. “We are happy that the highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak is under control […]
News in South Africa 4th July: 1. Food supply under threat: PwC has warned that South Africa is at risk of heightened food insecurity with load-shedding, adverse weather, and deteriorating infrastructure disrupting the country’s food supply. This is from the financial advisory firm’s South Africa Economic Outlook, released in June, where it discussed how businesses […]
News in South Africa 16th January: 1. Ramaphosa stays home for power crisis: President Cyril Ramaphosa has cancelled his visit to Switzerland to urgently attend to the energy crisis back home. Ramaphosa was scheduled to travel to Davos for the World Economic Forum summit, an annual meeting of world leaders, business and civil society which […]
News in South Africa 6th December: 1. Politics draining rand: The South African rand clawed back some of its losses since the release of the explosive section 89 report on president Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm last week, but it remains in shaky space as political uncertainty persists. The rand recovered to around R17.19 a […]
