Category Archives: Let’s Talk Fresh

Role players react to Tito Mboweni’s budget

Agbiz One of the key aspects of interest was state-owned enterprises’ rising debt, particularly Eskom. ...

SA’s meat processors give a million rand towards SU food safety initiative

The South African Meat Processors Association (SAMPA) has donated R1 million towards the activities of ...

How load shedding hits SMEs – and what they can do about it

Although the whole country is impacted by Eskom load shedding, the implications for small and ...

SONA and engagement with the government

John Purchase, chief executive officer: Agbiz President Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address last week ...

A record year for SA’s agricultural exports

Wandile Sihlobo, Agbiz Recently released data on SA’s agricultural trade for December 2018 paint a ...

COP 24: What you must know

The Conference of Parties to the Paris agreement on climate change (COP24) met in Poland ...

Agriculture’s reaction to SONA

Agbiz  Agbiz strongly welcomes the State of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa today, ...

Total’s landmark find could be enough to supply SA refineries for 4 years

Paul Burkhardt, Bloomberg South Africa’s first deep-water discovery, reported Thursday by French oil major Total ...

SA needs coal ‘until at least 2040’, panel argues

Carin Smith According to projections, South Africa will need to generate energy from coal until ...

FMD: Latest update by DAFF and the red meat industry

Joint update statement by DAFF and the red meat industry on the Foot and Mouth ...

SA plants smallest maize area since worst drought

South African maize farmers, who historically produce the continent’s biggest harvest, have probably planted the ...

China’s US pork imports plunge in 2018 as trade war bites

Reporting by Dominique Patton, additional reporting by Beijing Newsroom, Reuters China’s imports of pork from ...