Farmer looking at sugarcane plants Sugarcane farmers in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) are calling on the government to rescue the country’s sugar giant, Tongaat Hulett. Business rescue practitioners have filed for provisional liquidation of the entity. With a R12-billion debt and a failed rescue deal put forward by the Vision Consortium, the livelihoods of one million people…
Workers at a clothing factory. South Africa’s fragile labour market is set to come under the spotlight when the latest unemployment figures are released on Tuesday. Stats SA is due to publish the results of its Quarterly Labour Force Survey for the final quarter of last year. Economists are expecting that shifts in the official…
Teacher assistant in the class Government has managed to create over a million job opportunities for young people in the last five years while strengthening almost 20 000 schools. That is according to President Cyril Ramaphosa in his weekly letter to the nation. This is part of the Presidential Employment Stimulus. In his State of…
Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccination drive in Fisantekraal, Cape Town on February 15, 2025. Western Cape Premier Alan Winde says Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) poses a major risk for the livestock farming sector in the province. About 15 000 people are employed in the R 13.5 billion sector. A proactive risk mitigation vaccination…
A health officer checks cattle in a farm as a preventive measure against foot and mouth at a farm in Indonesia. Free State Agriculture says it’s irresponsible for farmers to intentionally not declare or report suspected Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) cases. But the farmers’ organisation has admitted that early reporting might be challenging for…
File Image: Uber app seen on a cellphone. Uber plans to roll out its delivery business into seven new European countries this year, as tech groups ramp up their efforts in the multibillion-euro food-delivery market, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The US-based company will launch services in markets including Czech Republic, Greece and Romania…
Jobs being advertised in a paper Youth skills non-profit organisation Afrika Tikkun has warned that nearly five million young South Africans are at risk of becoming economically invisible. This is as some matriculants and graduates give up on job hunting after months of not getting responses from employers. The organisation has called for partnerships between…
Cows seen during a Foot-and-Mouth vaccination drive. Local farmers in the Eastern Cape are calling for an accelerated sourcing and distribution of foot and mouth vaccine, as they count their losses and possible crippling of their pockets due to the outbreak, which has now been pronounced a national disaster. The farmers fear that reliance on…
A health officer checks cattle at a farm as a preventive measure against foot and mouth disease. AgriSA says that it welcomes the announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa during the State of the Nation Address (SONA) declaring the ongoing foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak a national disaster. The organisation says that the declaration reflects the seriousness of the current bio-security threat facing…
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease is prevented by washing hands often with soap and water. The Western Cape Agriculture Department has issued a formal quarantine order for the Drakenstein Municipality. This follows a confirmed case of foot-and-mouth disease in the area. The department says all cloven-hoofed animals in the municipality are regarded as potentially infected. The movement of…
