A win-win approach to conflict management
Can you remember the last person you had a fight with? Was it at work or at home? Can you remember what it was about? Have you managed to make peace with them? Are...
Goeie arbeidspraktyke en -verhoudinge in die kollig
September 2015
— Die invloed van beurtkrag op arbeid in landbou
ELIZE VAN DER WESTHUIZEN, senior bestuurder: Arbeidsverhoudinge, Agri SA
Een van die grootste uitdagings waarmee individue en besighede tans in Suid-Afrika te doen het, is beurtkrag....
White maize meal prices and trends from shortage to deficit – Part 2
April 2018
DR CHRISTO JOUBERT, manager: Agro-Food Chains, Market and Economic Research division, National Agricultural Marketing Council and RIKA VERWEY, senior economist: Agro-Food Chains, National Agricultural Marketing Council
The maize meal value chain experienced many challenges...
The scourge of wildlife poisoning
Few countries in the world can compete with South Africa’s wildlife wealth: We have around 24 000 indigenous higher order plant species, over 900 bird species, more than 400 mammals as well as a...
European Union agreement that’s falling short
The SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) is an important agreement between the European Union (EU) and six members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), namely Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini and Mozambique.
Initially,...
What the Boers can teach us about South Africa
July 2017
Growing up in Umlazi in the 1980s and 1990s, I understood the word 'Boer' to mean something very different from the Afrikaans word for ‘farmer’. While I had to study Afrikaans through most of my...
Kies die regte sonkragstelsel
Met die afname in die koste van kragkomponente asook stygende elektrisiteitspryse, is daar al hoe meer huishoudings en besighede wat sonkrag begin oorweeg. Die moontlikheid vir gereelde beurtkrag na afloop van die grendeltydperk ondersteun...
Hoe raak die minimum loon produsente?
Soos algemeen bekend is, het president Cyril Ramaphosa in November 2018 aangekondig dat ’n nuwe Wet op die Nasionale Minimum Loon vanaf 1 Januarie 2019 in werking sou tree. Met die skryf van hierdie...
Hanteer paniek en spanning in hierdie tye só
Onsekere tye soos die wat ons tans beleef, is ’n ware teelaarde vir stres, paniek en angstigheid, maar wat nou daarmee gemaak? Hoe hanteer en oorkom ek dit?
Ek glo dié vrae is al deur...
Western Cape Department of Agriculture takes the Annual Combined Congress by storm
April 2015
JOHANN STRAUSS, JOHAN LABUSCHAGNE and ANNELENE SWANEPOEL, Department of Agriculture, Western Cape Government
The annual Combined Congress of the South African Societies for Soil, Horticultural, Weed and Crop Sciences were held in George, from...
