All South Africa articles – Page 84

  • Total Produce Capespan
    Article

    Total Produce ends Capespan alliance

    2013-04-17T09:23:20Z

    Public listing of South African exporter now more likely following Zeder's €22m buyout of Irish company's 25 per cent stake

  • Article

    Southern Africa set for bumper citrus crop

    2013-04-16T10:17:07Z

    Southern Africa may harvest its biggest ever citrus crop this year, with South Africa’s Citrus Marketing Forum noting in its final estimate for 2013 that this year’s volumes are expected to increase by 4 per cent on last year’s record to nearly 107m cartons.

  • Article

    South Africa reacts to EU citrus concerns

    2013-04-16T10:17:03Z

    The South African citrus sector has reacted strongly to this week's Copa-Cogeca statement, which urged the EU Commission to put in place safety measures to protect against contaminated imports of citrus fruit coming in from South Africa.

  • Article

    Top-fruit supply faces chaos over DPA plans

    2013-04-16T10:16:41Z

    The availability of southern hemisphere and US apples and pears on the shelves of British supermarkets is under serious threat after it emerged the EU plans to lower the maximum residue level for diphenylamine.

  • Article

    SA wage rise slammed

    2013-04-16T10:16:33Z

    South African farmers’ union Agri SA has condemned the 52 per cent increase in the national minimum wage for farm workers announced last week by the agriculture ministry.

  • Article

    South Africa calls on UK to prevent citrus ban

    2013-04-16T10:16:26Z

    The South African citrus sector is calling on importers in the UK to take action or face a total ban of their produce.

  • Article

    Public hearings to settle unrest in South Africa

    2013-04-16T10:15:55Z

    The South African Department of Labour has announced public hearings across the Western Cape this week in a review of farm workers’ minimum wages as unrest surged again in the troubled region.

  • Article

    Violence surges in Western Cape

    2013-04-16T10:15:52Z

    Johan van Niekerk, chairman of the South African Table Grape Industry has called for urgent intervention by all stakeholders to bring an end to violence in the Western Cape area.

  • Article

    South African grape shipments to UK disrupted

    2013-04-16T10:15:46Z

    South Africa has shipped considerably less grapes to major marketing regions so far this year, following a late start to the harvesting season and rain disruptions in the Orange River region.

  • Article

    Book project comes to fruition

    2013-04-16T10:15:45Z

    South African growers have delivered the first packages of English language reading and textbooks to farming schools in the Western Cape of the country.

  • Article

    Tesco wins award for South African stonefruit

    2013-04-16T10:15:16Z

    UK retail giant Tesco has received the accolade of South African Stonefruit Retailer of the Year 2012 from the country's grower union HORTGRO.

  • Article

    South Africa braced for more protests

    2013-04-16T10:15:15Z

    South African fruit growers, still reeling from the recent violence and damage caused by strikes in some of the Cape fruit regions, are now preparing themselves for a planned resumption of the protests in the first week of December.

  • Article

    Appeal for calm following violence in South Africa

    2013-04-16T10:15:08Z

    Gerrit van Rensburg, farm minister for the Western Cape pro- vincial government in South Africa has called for calm in the province following violent protests at farms in the Hex Valley last week and warned that such action threatens the future of fruit production.

  • Article

    Colors to continue Sheehan battle

    2013-04-16T10:14:59Z

    South African exporter Colors Fruit has brushed aside a statement from Sheehan Genetics LLC that the battle for the ownership of the Sheehan grape varieties in South Africa has finally been resolved.

  • Ronan Lennon
    Article

    Lennon returns to Capespan

    2013-04-16T10:14:34Z

    Ronan Lennon, the ex-MD of Capespan UK, is poised to make a dramatic return to the South African-owned group when he takes up a new role as MD of the company’s Capespan Exports division, according to Eurofruit.

  • US Vons Safeway Bulk Navels Tangelos citrus
    Article

    Capespan eyes citrus expansion

    2013-04-11T12:08:04Z

    Capespan North America sees potential to encourage more retail support across the region for imported summer citrus

  • Video

    Video: Ethical trade in South Africa

    2013-04-11T12:07:12Z

    FPJ and Eurofruit reporter Thomas Hobbs visited South Africa's Western Cape for a closer look into the social efforts of its fruit producers.

  • Safmarine Capespan school South Africa Luke Ramsey
    Article

    Safmarine and Capespan aid education

    2013-04-10T13:27:37Z

    Two classrooms constructed from containers are handed over by Safmarine and Capespan to the Agter-Witzenberg farm community

  • Citrus GEN RSA
    Article

    Southern Africa set for bumper citrus crop

    2013-03-26T11:09:07Z

    The region's citrus export crop is expected to increase by 4 per cent this year, and could turn out to be the biggest harvest ever

  • Meir Ben Artzy Reverend Mpho Tutu
    Article

    RSA celebrates Sharon fruit milestone

    2013-03-22T10:52:11Z

    It is five years since the first consignment of Sharon fruit was handed to the HIV Foundation’s Emavundleni Centre for Vaccine Research