A dairy cow’s fall in the back of a truck in the Overberg last week, puts focus yet again on the dire need in South Africa for traceability from farm to fork. Marina, an export fruit farmer from Grabouw said that her journey along the N2 on Wednesday last week developed into a distressing effort to help a cow that had fallen in the truck travelling in front of her. “I was … [Read more...]
Top retailer and WWF form sustainability partnership
In a first for African retail, the World Wide Fund for Nature South Africa (WWF-SA) and Woolworths have announced a broad-based, multifaceted partnership to drive greater sustainability through selected Woolworths products and operations. The collaboration is timely, reflecting a trend that recognises that the private sector and the non-governmental sector can work together … [Read more...]
Afrikara co-op launch
On Sunday the 4th of July, a group of customers, suppliers, friends and interested parties celebrated the official launch of Afrikara Co-op, a new style consumer-producer association. The founding of Afrikara was spearheaded by Aletta Venter, Francois and Henriette Malan, Gustav van der Merwe, Liesl Haasbroek and Louis le Roex, all of them passionate supporters of a new … [Read more...]
