The European Union wants to stop some imports from South Africa after some shipments of fruit were found to have the citrus black spot disease.

Lower demand for South Africa’s merchandise exports from the eurozone will have a substantially negative direct effect on the economy.

A modernisation programme to digitise local export processes may lie behind the puzzling clampdown that has left local food exporters reeling.

Small food exporters are reeling after an inexplicable clampdown by customs and excise on their goods to Europe.

Men often bribe guards and managers to get jobs, but sex is the preferred inducement for women in Kenya.

Less demand for exports is hurting GDP growth, Graeme Wearden and David Stanway report.