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SAfrican wine industry ages well at 350 years old PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 01 February 2009

Smooth and elegant with a medley of tastes as diverse as the terroir which yields it, South Africa's wine industry has proved it ages well 350 years after grapes were first pressed in the Cape.

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South African Corn Rises as Weather Curbs South American Crop PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 25 December 2008

By Mkhululi Mancotywa

Dec. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Corn prices in South Africa, the biggest producer of the grain on the continent, rose on speculation that dry weather will reduce yields for crops in Brazil and Argentina.

 

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SOUTH AFRICA: Maize - the unaffordable staple PDF Print E-mail
Saturday, 21 June 2008


Photo: Tomas de Mul/IRIN
Maize meal prices are soaring
JOHANNESBURG, 20 June 2008 (IRIN) - With global high food prices apparently here to stay, economists in South Africa warn that despite a bumper maize harvest, worldwide demand and soaring agricultural input prices mean that even maize-meal, the country's staple, could be off the menu.

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