For too long, South Africa’s labour laws have been cripplingly restrictive, discouraging businesses from taking on new employees. The laws were crafted against an ideological background that saw businesses and employers as essentially evil and employees as their hapless victims.
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The 2022 Census of Agricultural Households counted roughly 2.4 million small-scale Farmers in South Africa, outnumbering about 40’000 commercial and just 2’600 large-scale operations almost 60 to 1. Yet they don’t reach formal markets.
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South Africa’s land and mining crisis is political and structural, and experts at the 2026 Mining Indaba agree that reform requires collective, democratic community control over land.
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South Africans are set to pay more for beef and pork as foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) disrupts the meat value chain and fast food restaurants pass the price hikes on to consumers.
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Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to grow at about 4.4% this year, making it one of the world’s fastest-growing economic regions.
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South Africa has faced a chronic water shortage for many years, with large parts of the country experiencing recurring drought conditions, depleted groundwater, and critically low dam levels in many regions.
