Carolize Jansen

As South African strawberry exports to the Middle East wind up and make way for Jordanian and Egyptian strawberries, newly-established Cape Country Exports is moving over to stone fruit and…

The most recent cut-off low weather system moving across South Africa left behind between 100mm and around 200mm over two days in the Langkloof, but

The Loskop Valley in Limpopo Province kicks off its grape season in fine fettle. Last week a hail shower hit one farm, but the effect will be limited.

Strawberries attract new farmers every year: it seems an easy, high-value crop with a quick growth cycle that doesn't require the amounts of capital inputs of other fruit types. However, this…

The hail storms repeatedly pelting eastern South Africa over the past three weeks were the manifestation of three separate cutoff low pressure systems and the deepest low pressure over South…

Sunday and Monday clocked the hottest temperatures recorded for this period in years across South Africa's Mpumalanga Province and southern Mozambique.

For the past nineteen years Namibia has been assessing availability of certain fruit and vegetables every month to determine whether the country has enough and whether imports are needed.

Civil unrest and brutal police oppression in Mozambique are keeping South African coal, chrome and magnetite from being loaded onto vessels from the Matola Cargo terminal in the port of Maputo.

A South African mango farmer is furious at unripe Tommy Atkins mangoes sold last week at the Joburg Market as class 1 fruit, after being initially rejected on grounds of immaturity on the first of November.

For the past nineteen years Namibia has been assessing availability of certain fruit and vegetables every month to determine whether the country has enough and whether imports are needed. Right: Proudly Namibian fresh produceI…