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 | FRED MEINTJES "In the last month or so, vessels have been waiting outside the port for two weeks before they could berth, some export orders from three months ago have not been shipped yet, and several importers have been waiting for more than a month after the delivery date to receive their containers." Read |
| Commodities & Fairtrade |
 | The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks international prices of the most traded food commodities, averaged 93.2 points in June, some 2.4% higher than the previous month... Read |
| Food Security |
 | SINDY PETERS The MAMAS Alliance CSI Agency, together with Food and Trees for Africa (FTFA), are embracing the well-known "Give a man a fish" proverb, connecting corporates with grassroots NGOs to start or strengthen community market gardens... Read |
 | MIMI ALEMAYEHOU In the last several months, Covid-19 has taken up nearly every news headline in nearly every country in the world. The health impact, testing, confinement, and trying to curb the pandemic have rightly been at the forefront... Read |
| Sustainability |
 | ERIK MEIJAARD The coconut - an icon of unspoiled tropical idylls - causes more environmental harm than many people realise... Read |
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 | Distell has launched Click2Collect.co.za to help South Africans order alcoholic drinks from more than 22,000 taverns countrywide in a simpler and safer manner... Read |
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 | Social investment fund manager Tshikululu has initiated a project to map the interventions of social investors throughout South Africa... Read |
 | ROBYN BERGER, THEUNIS CLAASSEN AND CATHERINE ROBSON The Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was brokered by the African Union (AU) and adopted by 44 of its 55 member states on 21 March 2018. By February 2019, all AU countries, save for Eritrea, had become signatories to the AfCFTA, which came into force on 30 May 2019... Read |
 | Innovation is the development and application of ideas that improve the way things are done or what can be achieved. Innovation can help your business grow... Read |
 | E-commerce is providing a ray of hope for the local economy with transactions hitting a record high in May and June... Read |
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