The very sudden demand increases for ivermectin injectable products based on beliefs that Ivermectin may help prevent and treat Covid-19, directly impacting the animal health industry. Desperate people do desperate things, resulting in the growing black market in the import and perhaps manufacture of Ivermectin products in the country.
TruCapeFruit says the first Witte Wijn apples are again growing on a tree in South Africa after ‘hundreds’ of years.
A total ban on alcohol is the dullest instrument the government possibly could have used with which to carry out a delicate operation. In the meantime hundreds of wine farms and dozens of towns are bleeding to death, job opportunities are lost quicker than COVID-19 money going missing in the public service and one of South Africa’s oldest agricultural industries is on the verge of collapsing.
“Diversifisering is nie ʼn opsie nie. Dit is ʼn noodsaaklikheid. Ons lewe in ʼn baie wisselvallige besigheidsomgewing waarin daar baie veranderlikes heers. Indien jy dus slegs op een vertakking steun, is die kanse baie goed dat jy een of ander tyd probleme gaan kry. Maar jy moet ook baie goed kyk hoe jy jou vertakkings saamstel, sodat almal nie op dieselfde hulpbronne, dieselfde mark en dieselfde kapitaalbron staatmaak nie.”
Toe diesel te duur raak, het Schenkfontein in 2014 hul eie biodiesel begin maak. Philip het ʼn kursus by Green Diesel in Stikland voltooi, en die plaas het ʼn biodiesel-stelsel van 150 liter gekoop. Met verloop van tyd is dit aangepas om die proses van drie na twee dae te bespoedig. Die stelsel is intussen vervang met ʼn selfgeboude patent wat vandag sowat 800L biodiesel per week produseer.
Saying South Africa is food secure nationally when more than 14 million people in the country go hungry each day and more than a quarter of its children under the age of five are stunted, shows a gross misunderstanding of what food security really entails.
Magenta was nie Hansie Slim se skelm nie. Eerder deeltydse lewensmaat – Hansie het die verhouding as sulks beskou, en nié ter selfverontskuldiging nie (vra enigeen van sy vriende en vyande en hulle sal hom van alle aantygings van owerspel onthef). Magenta was ʼn beminde wat die pad saam met hom in ʼn ewewydige lyn met dié van sy vrou geloop het. En Hansie het oor die seldsame vermoë beskik om onvoorwaardelik lief vir en getrou aan beide bemindes te wees.
The Auditor-General’s damning report on the status of the Land Bank’s financial sustainability necessitates an urgent intervention. Whoever was responsible for the financial loss of R2,8 billion must be held accountable. This and many other challenges have compelled the AG to express serious doubt as to the ability of the Land Bank to continue operating as a going concern.
