Few matters offer stronger evidence of how far the ANC is removed from reality than Minister Bheki Cele’s attempts to abolish self-defence as motivation for possessing a firearm. 

 Rising food prices continue to dominate the headlines, domestically and globally.

President Cyril Ramaphosa moved SA to its highest level of the lockdown since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, prohibiting the sale of alcohol and outlawing all gatherings as he warned that the latest wave of infections would be more severe and may last longer than previous ones.

The current growth momentum in South Africa's agricultural sector, which we have written about several times over the past few weeks, is not just a development of the past two seasons.

 Farming and agribusiness play a crucial role in sustaining local economies and small towns. There is a lot of evidence of this in the literature and in the popular media.

Tuesday’s GDP data for the first quarter which shows that SA’s agricultural output unexpectedly contracted by 3.2% quarter on quarter on a seasonally adjusted and annualised basis should not be of lasting concern.