China and South Africa have entered into a large-scale industrial agreement which will take root in Limpopo over the next five years.

Far fewer bee species are buzzing across Earth today, following a steep decline in bee diversity during the last three decades, according to an analysis of bee collections and observations going back a century.  

The Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee to Initiate and Introduce Legislation amending Section 25 of Constitution gazetted the 18th Constitutional amendment in December.

Only 4% of any nations worldwide are normally farmers. The number of really successful farmers in most of the countries is rather lower and closer to 1% of the population. So the chance for everyone in a country to be farmers is not possible and not every one of the 4%, who will try to make a living out of farming, will succeed.

Since the start of the year, we’ve been cautious about making a bold call on South Africa’s maize harvest in the 2019/20 season.

At the moment, the current draft amendment to Section 25 of the Constitution says that the value of the land being expropriated will be determined by a court (the value of that land, or transaction itself, can be deemed as “nil” which would then become expropriation without compensation).