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Organised crime puts South Africa 7th in the world for criminality, confirming the fear that it may be entirely unreformable.

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They came at breakfast time to murder Theo Bekker, smashing an iron bar stolen from his own farmyard into his skull before slitting his throat so he bled to death.

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South Africa boasts 34 operational wind farms, predominantly owned by Independent Power Producers (IPPs), contributing over 3,400MW to the country’s electricity grid.

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Fresh efforts are being made to increase the share of black ownership in SA’s agricultural sector. This follows decades of missteps and badly designed interventions that have failed to significantly change the ownership patterns in the sector.

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Discussions of food security often revolve around the availability of food supply.

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Prof. Ferdi Meyer, Prof. Nick Vink, Dr. Tracy Davids and Dr. Hester Vermeulen recently published a paper on the food price dynamics in Africa. The paper sets out to identify and discuss the main drivers of food inflation in Africa, with a view to analysing the impact of shocks, specifically the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine.