South Africa's best up and coming fintech startups sweated it out at a virtual demo day when they had just five minutes each to convince a panel of judges that they should be part of the second phase of the AlphaCode Incubate programme...
An online emerging farmers' summit has revealed that, despite overall favourable agricultural and weather conditions, including good rainfall, 87% of small growers in South Africa have not managed to recover from last year's hard lockdown...
Managing executive for marketing and buying Travis Coppin fills us in on the Food Lover's brand strategy, and what it takes to survive and thrive in the competitive grocery retail business...
Lauren Hartzenberg 30 Apr 2021
Farming hygiene practices can help protect agricultural value chain
Potatoes SA shares Limpopo Province potato farmer Johan Holtzhausen's story as he details how he had contracted Covid-19 and at the same time faced challenges that his business went through due to Covid-19...
The Village Market Africa is the winner of Food Lover's Market's Seeds of Change Supplier Development Partnership, launched to create an opportunity for social enterprises to join the retailer's supplier network...
"Between 45 and 50% of South Africa's avocados are exported; 10 to 12% are processed into oil and guacamole, and the rest are sold locally. About 95% of South African avocado exports are to Europe, the United Kingdom, and Russia."
Two pensioners from KwaZulu-Natal have continued their family tradition of farming in the La Mercy region...
Called #WhenHopeWhispers, the campaign aims to highlight the indomitable spirit and contributions of various stakeholders from the potato industry before culminating in an inaugural State of the Potato Industry Address on 5 May 2021...
The new association will enhance member services, increase advocacy before government and the public, help members grow their businesses and drive consumption of fresh produce and demand for floral products...
Agri SA launches its 2021 Surplus Food Aid Campaign today, Wednesday, 31 March. The campaign includes a total of R110,000 in donations and an estimated 30 tonnes of fresh produce...
Massmart plans to sell the Cambridge Food, Rhino and Massfresh chains in a bid to "reduce exposure to non-core assets"...
Jessica Boonstra chats to Bizcommunity about starting and scaling Yebo Fresh, and the misconceptions that cloud SA's lucrative township retail economy...
Lauren Hartzenberg 5 Mar 2021
Mpact Versapak receives the prestigious Petco award for launching a 100% post-consumer recycled PET food punnet...
Issued by Mpact Plastics 2 Mar 2021
Farmers to the south of the country are grappling with an unprecedented crisis as the Kouga Dam, dropping below 7%, looks set to run dry for the first time ever...
Meat Naturally and Agricool Finance were awarded joint first place in the 10th Annual Social Innovation Awards, while Leafline Washable Sanitary Wear scooped first place in the Disability Empowerment Awards...
Since the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown started in March 2020, few people come to a street that used to overflow with footsteps and chatter. And the informal traders are left without shoppers...
Ashraf Hendricks 5 Feb 2021
The NCC has launched an investigation into allegations of price gouging relating to garlic and ginger...
Food Lover's Market has launched its Seeds Of Change Supplier Development Partnership to create opportunities for social enterprises to join the fresh produce retailer's network as a supplier...
The AlphaCode Incubate programme provides funding, guidance from performance coaches and a panel of advisory experts, access to AlphaCode's co-working space, and opportunities to apply for further early-stage investment...
Walmart Inc will add small robot-staffed warehouses to dozens of its stores to help fill orders for pickup and delivery, as Americans shift their spending online...
Melissa Fares 28 Jan 2021
The new era of smart packaging, and consequently products, will connect, improve and transform industries and shape new consumer expectations...
Robert Lockyer 21 Jan 2021
The shipment of goods to suppliers has become technologically sophisticated. Delays in getting out the Covid-19 vaccine to people show that the breakdowns come down to something more basic...
Anna Nagurney 11 Jan 2021
Kenya's agriculture has beaten the odds of a difficult 2020 to end on a high, having registered one of the best growth trajectories across key segments in a long time...
Nelson Maina 28 Dec 2020
As the year draws to a close, it is worthwhile to reflect on one of the biggest highlights of 2020 in land reform.
Meal kit services may be the easiest way to get food on the table, but the supply chain behind this business model is complex and time-pressured...
Films entering the South African box office, this week, include Fatman and The Croods: A New Age...
Daniel Dercksen 4 Dec 2020
Over the past seven months, we have seen the South African economy suffer a major contraction. The Covid-19 pandemic put further pressure on an economy that was already ailing...
Khathutshelo Mufamadi 30 Nov 2020
The Department of Small Business Development and Nedbank have called on informal fruit and vegetable traders who were negatively affected by the pandemic to apply for funding...
A highly customised email campaign boosted visibility and online sales of new service despite a difficult economic environment...
Issued by Everlytic 17 Nov 2020
Standing up for those who have historically been excluded to create meaningful, sustainable change...
Issued by eatbigfish 6 Nov 2020
Kantar's Covid-19 tribes, an offshoot from wave six of the global Barometer study into how the pandemic affected consumer behaviour, attitudes and expectations across 60+ markets including Kenya and Nigeria, reveals what marketers need to consider to better reach consumers in these sub-Saharan markets...
Issued by Kantar 28 Oct 2020
The fact that the World Food Programme is the recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize not only celebrates the work they do feeding hundreds of millions of hungry people globally, but draws attention to the plight of the starving...
Michael Rudolph 23 Oct 2020
This year's Africa Brand Summit event, which took place between 5 and 8 October as a hybrid event, saw CEO of Green Terrace, Mbali Nwoko, share her thoughts around food value chains and what key challenges emerging commercial farmers are facing...
Robin Fredericks 15 Oct 2020
Pekkish SA is a new local food market app that aims to connect Cape Town residents to the nearest home kitchen business...
As one of the beneficiaries of Tractor Outdoor's SME Advertising Fund, Foodbox stocks a wide variety of fresh, locally-sourced produce, which includes everyday staples such as meats, cheese, dairy and vegetables...
Issued by Tractor Outdoor 12 Oct 2020
After months away from centre stage due to the nationwide lockdown, Jeremy Loops is excited. He was doing what everyone else was, he says: "Probably too much Netflix and a few home workouts for the first weeks." But come Sunday 11 October at 5pm, he will head music app Joox Big Live performance...
Nadim Nyker 8 Oct 2020
The IAB SA discussed marketing partnerships in the digital economy, and shared insights on those relationships that enable brands to beat the benchmark in digital in its next webinar that was held on Thursday, 8 October...
Juanita Pienaar 5 Oct 2020
According to the United Nations, South Africa's rural population, currently at just over 33%, will decline to 20% of the total population by 2050. While this seems like a step in the right direction, says FoodForward SA MD Andy du Plessis, even more people moving to already saturated urban areas with limited job opportunities will have a negative impact on vulnerable rural communities too.
Set against the densely forested eastern sides of the Table Mountain range and sloping down into a valley of vineyards, Constantia offers plenty of reasons to plan a holiday break or getaway around this locale...
Government needs to legislate labelling that supports the diversion of surplus food; the food value chain needs to find efficient ways to divert and deliver it; and civil society needs to put pressure on the system to ensure that their fellow countrymen are adequately fed and nourished...
John Hudson 8 Sep 2020
Ranging from owner and farmer manager to junior farm assistant, Tongaat Hulett is celebrating three inspiring KwaZulu-Natal women in agriculture this Women's Month who are involved in sugar cane farming...
Food Lover's Market's fourth annual Hunger Month campaign raised funds equating to 1,030,888 meals, exceeding the fresh produce retailer's 1 million meal target for 2020...
Lauren Hartzenberg 7 Aug 2020
As diabetes emerges, worldwide, as a top co-morbidity of Covid-19, there's an increasing focus for many of us on our family eating habits and how we can make smart, sustainable improvements to support immunity and overall health through food...
Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 28 Jul 2020
To help restart the economy and pay it forward, Liberty Two Degrees (L2D) launched its #CreateTomorrow campaign...
Sindy Peters 27 Jul 2020
It took 61 volunteers, 376 hours, 100 social entrepreneur stations feeding more than 67,000 meals, plus bags of warmth to make Mandela Day a huge success for ChangeMakersHub.
The sector increased by 27.8% quarter-on-quarter due to higher production of animal products, horticulture and field crops amid favourable weather conditions...
Paul Makube 21 Jul 2020
"The purpose of the project is to revitalise small and medium-business urban farming, offer training, and increase job opportunities in Philippi."
Results from the recently released National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS) - Coronavirus Rapid Mobile (NIDS-CRAM) Survey reveal an exploding hunger crisis in South Africa...
Sindy Peters 17 Jul 2020
The Competition Commission said that of the 1,600 complaints received under the excessive pricing and consumer protection regulations by the end of June, 19% related to basic food products...