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Ecotourism EC's ticket to profit
PORT ELIZABETH -- Game ranching and ecotourism may well become the most profitable farming practices that will also help conserve the Eastern Cape's fast-dwindling thicket vegetation, commonly known as valley bushveld. Falling within a broad regi...

R2m beekeeping project launched
By Mbuyisi Mgibisa UMTATA -- The Department of Welfare has launched a R2million beekeeping project at Canzibe, near Ngqeleni. The project is being piloted in 12 villages throughout the Nyandeni Municipality. Welfare standing committee member A...

Toxic chemicals contaminate Africa
ADDIS ABABA -- Africa faces a "toxic time bomb" of highly poisonous and obsolete agricultural chemicals, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation warned this week. Thousands of tons of highly poisonous substances like pesticides -- banned in othe...

Goat's milk farm cheese rated tops
CAPE TOWN -- A farm cheese proved the big cheese at this year's national dairy championships. La Montanara's Goat's Milk Romano was crowned Dairy Product of the Year at the SA Dairy championship awards dinner this week. This king of cheeses also...

7,7 million Malawians face food shortages
MASULA, Kenya -- After two years of crop failure, Tamatuma Nkhaniyachuma has only a few dozen maize cobs left to feed her two children and three grandchildren for the rest of the year. When that food is finished, she has no idea what they will do....

MARKET PRICES
The following prices are for fair average quality produce marketed in East London. (AVERAGE, HIGHEST & LOWEST) PRODUCTAVE.HIGHLOW VEGETABLES Butternuts0,991,200,90 Potatoes, class1 med1,151,500,95 class 2 med0,98 1,200,90 Beetroot3,693,753,6...

Tougher measures needed to make our roads safer
TRAGEDIES can happen anywhere, at any time, even in the most ordered and disciplined of societies but there are many that are avoidable, and when they occur fingers are pointed. South Africa's problems on the roads start at the very basic level o...

Pop singer Jewel injured
POP SINGER Jewel was injured when she was thrown from a horse at the Texas ranch of her boyfriend, rodeo star Ty Murray, the co-president of her record label said yesterday. Jewel, 27, broke her collarbone, her first rib and suffered bumps and br...

Manson stays put
MASS murderer Charles Manson was refused parole for the 10th time this week at a hearing he refused to attend because he didn't want to wear shackles on his wrists. Manson, 67, will have to wait five more years for another parole hearing. He was...