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PICS: Parts of Kruger Park submerged as heavy rainfall continues  Nica Richards The raging Crocodile River. Photo: Twitter/@LatestKruger River levels are subsiding from earlier today, but the park is now on high alert after a warning issued by the SA Weather Service of more heavy rainfall in Limpopo and Mpumalanga. Several camps and bridges are currently inaccessible in the Kruger National Park due to continued heavy rainfall in the Limpopo area.  On Saturday, the park reported flooding from the Limpopo River, so much so that a ranger had to rescue an employee in Pafuri north of the...

First normal litchi season in a while as new avo campaign approaches “The new avocado season is upon us. On early greenskins like Fuerte and Pinkerton we should be seeing a normal crop but on Hass from South Africa the industry volume might be a bit reduced compared to 2020 because of alternate bearing,” says Don Westcott, Westfalia commercial manager, noting that the first official avocado estimate has not yet been released. “Flowering and fruit set would have been influenced by last year’s big crop and we could be in for a slightly lower crop as an industry. That said, we expect imp...