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NUTRITION

Why Khulisa is South Africa’s next big step in tackling malnutrition

The link between nutrition and education is undeniable – a hungry child cannot learn effectively, and a malnourished child faces lifelong disadvantages. The Tiger Brands…

  • Eugene Absolom
3 min read
Strapped: As the cost of living rises more low- and middle-income people are shopping locally. Photo: Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images
ACE MAIZE MEAL AND OROS FRUIT JUICES

Corporates move into township economy

Tiger Brands and delivery services such as Uber Eats are targeting this growing market

  • Anathi Madubela
6 min read
Bitter: Sugar cane growers are facing yield losses because of irregular irrigation caused by load-shedding. Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
AGRI PRODUCER

Tiger Brands: Prolonged load-shedding a risk to food security

Tiger Brands and others in the food production chain are struggling under the rolling blackouts

  • Anathi Madubela
6 min read
Since its establishment in 2020, the Spaza-shop Support Programme has funded more than 6 000 small businesses around the country but many shop owners have bemoaned the poor communication around the scheme. Photo: Supplied
HENLEY BUSINESS SCHOOL

Spaza shops take centre stage in township economy

Consumers living in such areas are spending more at spazas than big retailers, according to a report

  • Anathi Madubela
5 min read
The lockdown provided us with a prism through which we could look at our crazy lives and simplify them. It was a strange and special time
AQUACULTURE

OPINION| Building business sustainability is not just an expensive, developed-world problem

African businesses have the power to reduce the effect of climate change through sustainable business models and circular economy practices

  • Catherine Wijnberg
6 min read
Gatvol: Citizens march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria protesting against corruption in government. (Delwyn Verasamy)
BANKS

Unethical businesses will face people’s protest

Companies must behave like model democratic citizens if they are to earn and retain society’s social licence to operate

  • William Gumede
5 min read
The issue of land expropriation without compensation had initially contributed to much uncertainty in the market and hurt business confidence. But we’ll give credit to the current administration that, at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, the issue didn’t warrant as much attention as previously. (Tiger Brands)
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT

Creating an exclusive South African economy

Every South African needs to be building a better future for tomorrow

  • Mary Jane Morifi
5 min read
If there is just one outcome from the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa that could be considered positive, it is this: for perhaps the first time, the reality of household hunger and malnutrition has become visible to policymakers. (Madelene Cronje)
FOOD SECURITY

Feed the hunger disaster

As for a tsunami or any other calamity, corporates and individuals must dig into their pockets

  • Eugene Absolom
5 min read
In a note to shareholders, Tiger Brands said no specific damages were being claimed. The first stage of the class action is concerned with liability, and not the cost of damages, it said.
CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT

Tiger Brands receives listeriosis class action summons, vows to fight it

In February, the Johannesburg high court determined that Richard Spoor Attorneys could go ahead with a class action application

  • Khulekani Magubane
1 min read
In a note to shareholders, Tiger Brands said no specific damages were being claimed. The first stage of the class action is concerned with liability, and not the cost of damages, it said.
AARON MOTSOALEDI

Listeriosis class action given the greenlight

The listeriosis outbreak — the largest in recorded history — killed 218 people after more than 1 000 contracted the disease between 2016 and 2018.

  • Sarah Smit
3 min read
Mike Vacy-Lyle, chief executive of FNB Business
BUSINESS

Being an entrepreneur in South Africa – ‘the art of the hustle’

Hustlers have audacious goals and are not afraid of taking risks

  • Advertorial
3 min read
Moshopyadi Hannah Heil of Reputation House
BRANDING

Q&A with Moshopyadi Hannah Heil of Reputation House

It’s absolutely vital to know what drives the reputation of the industry one is in

  • Cayleigh Bright
7 min read
The Listeriosis crisis affected not only Tiger Brands, but the industry as a whole
BRANDS

South Africa’s reputation leaders

Mr Price had a significant rise, while Tiger Brands had a phenomenal drop

  • Cayleigh Bright
4 min read
In a note to shareholders, Tiger Brands said no specific damages were being claimed. The first stage of the class action is concerned with liability, and not the cost of damages, it said.
BLOOMBERG AUTHOR

Tiger Brands may never know how listeria entered its plant

The food brand is still waiting for data from authorities that would definitively show whether its products are connected to the deadly crisis

  • Thembisile Dzonzi
  • Bloomberg Author
3 min read
Joan van Dyk tells you what to bin and how in under two minutes.
CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT

Class action suit against Tiger Brands set in motion

An application for a class action lawsuit against Tiger Brands and Enterprise Foods has been filed in the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg

  • Mashadi Kekana
2 min read
The former ANC treasurer is accused of lieing about and hiding the ANC’s debt when he was in office.
BRAZIL

SA halts some meat imports from Brazil

But there’s “no evidence” that listeria was imported from elsewhere in the world

  • Lynley Donnelly
7 min read
In a note to shareholders, Tiger Brands said no specific damages were being claimed. The first stage of the class action is concerned with liability, and not the cost of damages, it said.
ENTERPRISE FOODS

Three major mistakes Tiger Brands made in response to the listeriosis crisis

South Africa’s food making giant, Tiger Brands, could have handled the listeriosis crisis better.

  • Ilse Struweg
5 min read
Caster Semenya can return to competition without restriction until the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland advises otherwise. (Getty)
ENTERPRISE FOODS

Traces of listeria see another Tiger Brands factory shut down

The company is closing down an abattoir and another factory in the hope of finding out how Listeria ended up in its products

  • Gemma Ritchie
1 min read
Department of Health spokesperson Popo Maja said the department has not read the statement and is not yet able to comment.
AARON MOTSOALEDI

Wolwehoek polony factory has been cleared of listeriosis— RCL

​RCL Foods said in a statement on Friday that no trace of the listeria strain was found in the Free State polony facility of its subsidiary Rainbow

  • Khulekani Magubane
2 min read
The outbreak of listeriosis seven years ago was one of the largest in the world. (File photo)
AARON MOTSOALEDI

Listeriosis: ‘Platteland law firm’ prepares to take on Tiger Brands

Since announcing the class action plan last week, Attorney Richard Spoor has said his team has a mammoth task which may take years to come to fruition

  • Tammy Petersen
6 min read