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Port of Cape Town is bottom of World Bank’s ranking on container port performance By Dieketseng Maleke Share The Port of Cape Town has been ranked at the bottom of the list that assessed global container port performance. The port was listed at position 347 out of 351. According to the information contained in the World Bank’s report titled The Container Port Performance Index 2020, Cape town ranked lower than other ports in Africa. The port is less efficient than Djibouti, Abidjan, B...

Following a recent meeting with the CGA, minister Meyer said he is concerned about the state of service delivery at the Port of Cape Town.

The wine industry is currently sitting on between 250 million to 300 million litres of surplus stock and this surplus can largely be ascribed to the impact of the lockdown on domestic sales, says Agriculture MEC Ivan Meyer.

Avian flu detected on four poultry farms in the Western Cape By Given Majola Share CAPE TOWN - WESTERN Cape Agriculture MEC Ivan Meyer announced yesterday that four poultry farms near Worcester, Malmesbury and Hopefield had been detected as infected with the avian influenza virus. Two farms have been confirmed to have H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), though laboratory confirmation was still pending for the other two farms. Meyer said that the relationship to the viruses present in t...

These cases are in addition to five outbreaks in Gauteng and North West. It is unclear whether the Western Cape strain is the same as those at the farms in other provinces. Four outbreaks of avian flu have been recorded in the Western Cape. Western Cape Agriculture MEC Ivan Meyer said the infected farms are near Worcester, Malmesbury and Hopefield. "Two farms have been confirmed to have H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), though laboratory confirmation is still pending for the other tw...

The Western Cape Agriculture Department says 134 000 birds have either been culled or have died from the avian flu across the province.

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PHOTO: Mlungisi Louw, Gallo Images/Volksblad AfriForum said according to its data, 59 people have been murdered on farms since April last year. The lobby group added most farm murders were committed in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. Police Minister Bheki Celes office said the police would be releasing official statistics endorsed by Stats SA this week. AfriForum says it has recorded a sharp increase in farm murders countrywide in the last year. This ahead of the police releasing its quarterly crime...

JUDITH FEBRUARY: No matter who governs, SA’s future political landscape is messy opinion When watching the Democratic Alliance ‘flag-waving’ ad in which its federal chairperson, Ivan Meyer declares, ‘South Africa need (sic) change’, one does not know whether to laugh or cry. South Africans deserve better grammar. We also deserve an official opposition which is in touch with South African society and can see how woefully lame this latest campaign is. One doesn’t need to be a marketi...

These details have emerged following the recent controversy about the qualifications of senior DA members, including former Transport and Public Works MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela, who lied about a BCom degree.