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Bitter impact: Tongaat Hulett’s liquidation will have a devastating ripple effect throughout not just KwaZulu-Natal but the entire country too, filtering right down to the consumer. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
ACCOUNTING FRAUD

Tongaat Hulett collapse looms

Vision, the lead secured lender to the troubled sugar giant, said it was committed to saving the company and jobs despite the business rescue process failing

  • Brian Sokutu
5 min read
Namibia has schemes and together, they represent one of the most ambitious agricultural investments in southern Africa — spanning thousands of hectares of irrigated land, with access to perennial rivers and soils suited to maize, wheat and horticulture. Photos: Namibia Presidency
AFRICA

Namibia’s green schemes are failing, and a parliamentary inquiry blames the system

The country has 11 such schemes, together representing one of the most ambitious agricultural investments in southern Africa

  • Wonder Guchu
7 min read
Agri-tech entrepreneurs are the Uber of agriculture, offering small and emerging farmers access to markets.
AGRI TECH

Agri-tech may be South Africa’s new frontier

The sharing economy offers a promising solution for small-scale farmers

  • Zanele Mabaso
4 min read
Helen Moloto, 53, inspects the celery she grows on her smallholding in Kgabalatsane, North West Province. She supplies some of her produce to the Hebron Mango Tree Owner’s Company. (James Puttick)
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Women plant seeds of resilience

Projects in North West and Limpopo grow hope of surviving climate change

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read