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South Africa Starts To Resume Beef Exports After Foot And Mouth Outbreak

South Africa has started to resume exports of red meat and related products after an outbreak of the highly contagious foot and mouth disease (FMD) in Janu...

South African Sugar-Maker Tongaat Eyes Angola For Growth

Tongaat Hulett aims to expand its business in Angola and other African nations that rely on sugar imports, in line with a strategy to bulk up in the centra...

South Africa Sees Record Corn Crop, Even Bigger In Last Estimate

South Africa, the continent’s biggest producer of corn, boosted its final estimate for this year’s record crop as the pace of deliveries contin...

South Africa Seen Raising Forecast For Biggest Corn Crop Since 1981

South Africa, the continent’s biggest corn grower, will probably increase its forecast for a bumper crop of the staple grain for a third time this ye...

Country Bird To Close S. Africa Plant On EU Chicken Imports

Country Bird Holdings Ltd., South Africa’s third-largest chicken producer, will close one of its three abattoirs as the local industry struggles to c...

South Africa Warns Armyworms Could Be ‘Disastrous’ to Corn

South African corn farms are suffering “extensive” damage from what appears to be an alien caterpillar that destroyed fields in other countries...

Chicken Fight Rocks South Africa-Europe Trade Relations

Chinese steel and Mexican-made cars became political dynamite last year as politicians including U.S. President Donald Trump championed anti-free trade rhe...

Spar South Africa Promotes Sustainable Seafood

Spar South Africa has taken steps to ensure that its own brand seafood supports sustainable and well-managed fisheries, as part of an initiative to promote...