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───   ELSABÉ RICHARD 13:43 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 Photo: Flickr.com Rice is one of the main staple foods South Africa imports, as the country does not have a conducive climate for its production. This is according to Wandile Sihlobo, Chief Economist at the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa, Agbiz. Sihlobo explains that the International Grains Council forecasts South Africa's 2021 rice imports at 1.1 million tonnes, which is a 5% increase from the previous year. He says the imports are usually evenly spread across the year, with a slight peak in v...

───   LUCKY NKUYANE 07:19 Tue, 06 Apr 2021 A team of police investigators has been appointed to probe the murders of five family members in Namahadi in Qwaqwa in the Free State. The appointment coincides with the 72-hour activation plan which was deployed by the police following the discovery of the burnt bodies of the victims in Marakong village on Saturday.  Police spokesperson, Thandi Mbambo, says the team will be led by the District Commander of Thabo Mofutsanyana, Major Jan Tsotsetsi. On that fateful day the police discovered the body of a woman lying on the ground wit...

───   07:31 Sun, 04 Apr 2021 Image: Gallo Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has slammed retired Gauteng Deputy Judge President Phineas Mojapelo's decision to force him to apologise for his pro-Israel comments. Justice Mogoeng is appealing Mojapelo's decision finding that his comments at a webinar breached the Code of Judicial Conduct. He described Judge Mojapelo's reasoning as flawed and disturbingly superficial. In his 39-page appeal to the Judicial Conduct Committee, Justice Mogoeng states that Mojapelo misdirected himself in material respect by finding t...

───   07:13 Sun, 04 Apr 2021 PHOTO: eNCA Jonathan Ball, who established the publishing house carrying his name in 1976, has died in Cape Town of cancer. He was 69. Asked for comment, Ashton said: "Jon hated soundbites. But he will be missed." Ball rocked the political establishment in 1978 when he published the controversial book T he Super-Afrikaners, which exposed the extent to which a secretive organisation influenced South African society. He was surrounded by his children when he died, just after 15:00 on Saturday. Jonathan Ball Publishers and News...

───   06:23 Sun, 04 Apr 2021 Photo: Pixabay/Fernando Zhiminaicela The number of South Africans who died due to Covid-19 now stands at 52 954 after eight new deaths were recorded on Saturday. Three were recorded in the Free State, one in Gauteng, two in KwaZulu Natal, one of the Northern Cape and one in the Western Cape. The number of infections recorded in the country since the start of the pandemic now stands at s 1 551 501. Health Minister Dr Zweli Mkhize revealed these new numbers on Saturday. “Our cumulative recoveries today stand at 1 476 605, ...