South Africa: City Plans to Auction Cape Town Farmers' Market Site

Mowbray Market promotes smallholder farmers from Cape Town and rural towns as far as Genadendal, Suurbraak, and Calitzdorp Read more »

Lesotho: The Long Road to the Market for Lesotho's Wool Farmers

From the highlands of Lesotho, quality wool is sold in Gqeberha to the world Read more »

South Africa: Small-Scale Fishers in Court to Stop West Coast Seismic Surveys

Environmental impacts of offshore seismic surveying debated in court Read more »

South Africa: Housing Project for KZN Flood Victims Creeps Forward

Hundreds more families are in rented emergency accommodation Read more »

South Africa: Protesters Demand Steenhuisen Take Action to End Hunger

South Africa produces sufficient food yet millions go to bed hungry, says the Union Against Hunger Read more »

South Africa: De Doorns Farm Workers' Homes Destroyed in Floods

"I almost lost my grandchild. I almost lost my life," says Abraham Douglas, a farm worker at Kleinberg farm in De Doorns. Read more »

South Africa: The Need to Grow Food in Informal Settlements

Government must take food security into account when upgrading informal settlements like Slovo Park, says SERI Read more »

South Africa: Quota Bungle - Small-Scale Fishers Battle to Survive

Several West Coast cooperatives given even lower allocations than they had before their appeals Read more »

South Africa: Documentary Reveals SA's Skewed Food System

With nearly one in five households being food insecure, activists call for urgent action Read more »

South Africa: Turning Food Waste Into Millions of Healthy Meals

Companies like FoodForward SA and Ladles of Love are rescuing produce and redistributing it in vulnerable communities Read more »

South Africa: Minister Increases Quotas for Small-Scale Fishers

More licenses for linefish vessels and the crayfish season extended Read more »

South Africa: Limpopo Farmers Go Hungry After Floods

One farming cooperative estimates their losses to be up to R350,000 Read more »

South Africa: Nkandla Villagers Share River Water With Livestock

Communal water tanks installed in 2024 frequently run dry for weeks or months Read more »

South Africa: Botched Permits Spoil Start to Crayfish Season

West Coast small-scale fishers demand answers from fisheries department Read more »

South Africa: Fort Hare's Cattle Projects Were Supposed to Help Eastern Cape Farmers. Instead They Are a Lesson in Bad Governance

Forensic reports uncover arithmetical errors, unaccounted-for assets and absent oversight, probably resulting in the loss of tens of millions of rands for the university Read more »

South Africa: Calls for Nestlé to Remove Sugar From Baby Foods

Swiss investigative outlet claims Nestlé is misrepresenting sugar content Read more »

South Africa: Child Support Grant Cannot Feed a Child

Cost of meeting a child's nutritional needs exceeds R560 grant Read more »

South Africa: Let Them Eat Kreef!

New season's crayfish catch allocation is up almost 60% Read more »

South Africa: Porterville Women Share Their Heritage Through Food

The Purple Mountain Arts Residency hosted its second Heritage Day festival Read more »

South Africa: Cape Town Council Approves Social Housing At 'Fruit and Veg' Site

237 social housing units are planned Read more »

South Africa: Concourt Confirms Stopping People From Letting Their Cattle Graze Amounts to Eviction

The ruling applies to ESTA occupiers' rights to graze cattle Read more »

South Africa: A Taste of Somalia On the Streets of Joburg

We visited a Somali-owned coffee shop in Mayfair which serves qaxwo and other Somali treats Read more »