Agriculture Galleries

The Wine Art Food Festival celebrated a variety of the country's top wine farms at Freedom Park in Pretoria on 5 May 2018. Over 1500 wine, art and food lovers descended on the Heritage site tripling last year's attendance figures.

The 2018 South African Cheese Festival took place at Sandringham outside Stellenbosch from 27-29 April.

Arysta LifeScience South Africa's Galela Kakuhle small-scale farmer stewardship programme was unveiled at the at the East London International Convention Centre in East London on 15 March 2018. The programme is the result of a partnership between Arysta LifeScience and Umtiza Farmer's Corp.

Tru-Cape has supplied the Shoprite Group with 20m apples and pears to date.

The 33rd Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction total sales exceeded R13,2m and set a new record price for a case of wine on the day.

Steenberg launched a brand new range wines, Ruby, Stately and Sphynx, on the first day of Spring, 1 September 2017 at Bistro Sixteen82 at Steenberg.

Wine lovers made their way to the CTICC to rub shoulders with winemakers and taste this year's Nedbank Cape Winemakers Guild Auction line-up of rare, individually crafted wine gems that will go under the hammer at Spier in Stellenbosch on Saturday, 30 September 2017.

The winners of the 2017 Absa Top 10 Pinotage competition were announced at a special event held at the Cavalli Estate in Somerset West. This year's event also coincided with the 21-year commemoration of Absa involvement with the Pinotage Association.

KWV has helped boost the education of learners in farming communities this past Mandela Day by providing learners with information to make responsible and informed career decisions.

This year, Wine Cellar Fine Wine Merchants & Cellarers has once again identified SA's hottest young winemaking talent breaking the rules and pushing the limits at the annual "Young Guns's" event.

Tru-Cape held a heritage orchard open day at the Oak Valley Estate in Grabouw. On 4 February 2017, Tru-Cape showcased ancient apple and pear varieties to members of the public for guided walkabouts.

To commemorate the 225-year-old legacy of the winery's founder, Phillipus Wolvaart; Nederburg Wines held a special vine planting event earlier this month. Guided by Nederburg's viticulturist, Bennie Liebenberg and farm manager, Bertie Faure, guests braved the intense Paarl summer heat and got their hands dirty and helped plant the cultivar, Chambourcin, on a block that's been resting for three years to improve the decomposed granite soil. Read more here....

The winners of the eighth annual Nedbank Green Wine Awards were announced at an awards function which was held in Cape Town, recently.

In March 2016, Beauty Without Cruelty called for the end of hen suffering by committing to a petition for a cage-free policy to be adopted by Mcdonalds SA. United Front 4 Animals (UFA), OWL, South African Faith Communities' Environment Institute (SAFCEI) and Animal Voice, the official South African representative of Compassion in World Farming, added their voices to the campaign. The Mcdonalds franchises based in the US and Canada have already begun to phase out battery-cage use in their supply chain enterprises which have been beneficial to the hens that produce eggs for their consumers. Mcdonalds SA is yet to adopt this policy....

Themed 'A Cut Above', the Unilever Food Solutions Chef of the Year mystery basket national finals held on 8 September in Durban, saw participants in the junior and senior categories create recipes using Unilever Food Solutions products for a starter, main and dessert course.