The 2025 season has marked a major turning point for South Africa’s Flash Gala apple industry, with growers reporting improved fruit quality, stronger market acceptance and increased production volumes. After years of addressing challenges such as uneven maturity and quality inconsistencies, the variety is...

South African agricultural exporters are facing steep financial pressure...

The fifth national Karoo Winter Wool Festival officially returns...

Statistics South Africa’s (Stats SA) first-quarter GDP data for...

The recent SA-Italy Agriculture Business Forum in Cape Town...

A fresh shift in American trade policy has put South Africa’s export sector on high alert, though local industry leaders are reacting with a sense of measured relief rather than panic. The development follows a major global investigation by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) that introduces new tariff structures for dozens of trading partners. The Background: A Global Forced Labour Probe On 2 June  2026, the USTR officially concluded a sweeping Section 301 investigation. The probe focused on whether foreign nations effectively prevent goods produced with forced labour from entering their domestic supply chains. The U.S. issued adverse findings against 60 countries, representing nearly all of its import...