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27 March 2022
Daily Maverick
Managers of iSimangaliso Wetland Park in KwaZulu-Natal say they are still committed to further engagement with community leaders over recent attempts to occupy land in the southern Futululu section of the park — but have also pledged to not ‘fold their arms’ in the face of the land invasion.
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28 April 2022
Daily Maverick
A multimillion-rand water scheme for Port St Johns villages has been ‘abandoned’ after the contractor was not paid as the project costs ballooned.
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14 January 2022
Daily Maverick
After nearly a decade and millions of rands later, Free State Premier Sisi Ntombela handed over the Vrede dairy farm project to 65 community beneficiaries. l
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24 November 2021
Food for Mzansi
While the Eastern Cape has earned a reputation for corruption, agricultural leaders reckon it's unfortunate that corrupt behaviour has also
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24 November 2021
IOL
The association of agribusinesses operating in South and southern Africa’s chief economist, Wandile Sihlobo, said this week that recent studies showed that black South African farmers produced a mere less than 10 percent of the country’s total agricultural output.
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22 November 2021
Farmers review Africa
Land reform programmes ,financial injection ,Sanlam Foundation ,Vumelana Advisory Fund,landowners investors ,South Africa creating employment
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22 November 2021
GroundUp
“Everything here in Qunu has collapsed after Madiba passed away”
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28 October 2021
GroundUp
The settlement of about 1,000 households has almost no basic services
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22 September 2021
GroundUp
The road will bring destruction to the Wild Coast, they say. But SA National Roads Agency disagrees
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21 September 2021
Engineering news
In a recent brief report, the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (BFAP) pointed out that, according to the available data, the agricultural sector was one of the South African economy’s least concentrated sectors. And while agro-processing was much more concentrated that agriculture itself, it was still far from being one of the most concentrated sectors of the economy.
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The DRC and Ethiopia experienced the largest conflict
displacements in Africa. By the end of 2020, there were a little over 2 million new conflict displacements in
the Democratic Republic of the Congo and more than 1.6 million in Ethiopia.
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