Government launches load-shedding relief fund for farmers
South Africa’s government established a fund to reduce the effect of power outages on the agriculture industry and incentivize investment in alternative energy, Agricultural and Land Reform Minister Thoko Didiza said.
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South African lion breeders are allegedly part of an illegal network that smuggles lion and cheetah cubs from Botswana to stock local farms, The Times reported on Monday.
The newspaper reported that at least five South African lion farmers were mentioned in an investigation into cases where...
Three Limpopo farmers have been arrested for alleged attempted murder after apprehending a suspected rhino poacher, Beeld reported on Thursday.
The three farmers, PP Mare, Chris Naude and Johannes van Zyl, were being held in the Gravelotte police cells, the newspaper reported.
Their lawyer...
Food aid groups are urging the Obama administration to overhaul the way the United States helps starving people abroad.
The White House will not say whether Obama's budget proposal, scheduled to come out next week, will seek to change the way foreign food aid is distributed. But food aid...
Two more men have been arrested following the murder of Ventersdorp farmer, North West police said on Tuesday.
They would appear in the town's magistrate's court on Wednesday, Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said.
A 22-year-old man arrested on Sunday would appear in the same court with the two...