Think tank warns of potential impact on South African agriculture of EU pesticide bans

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South African think tank, the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP), has warned that the EU’s European Green Deal strategic roadmap could pose a challenge for South African agriculture, in the coming years. The aim of this roadmap is to make agriculture more sustainable and help combat climate change.


The Lessons of South Africa’s Stolen Land

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Thirty years after the end of apartheid, South Africa remains a troubled country with glaring racial disparities in income, employment, and access to everything from adequate housing to drinking water and electricity. But the abundant challenges that continue to face the country belie strenuous efforts at restitution and racial reconciliation—efforts that, in South Africa, have often focused on land.


Donald Trump’s second presidency starting shortly presents a major challenge to SA

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For a US president who is publicly threatening to take Greenland and Panama by military force – and also to annex Canada through crippling economic pressure – kicking South Africa out of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa), or even trashing the whole programme, would clearly be small change.