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  • South Africa's Dam Water: Sufficient for Food Production in the Coming Summer Season?

    03:59|
    As South Africa's agricultural heartland braces for the peak irrigation demands of the 2025/26 summer season, the nation's dams hold a cautiously optimistic reserve of clean water—collectively at around 81% capacity nationally, bolstered by persistent above-normal winter and early spring rains.
  • Heartburn Isn’t Always What You Think — And It May Be Linked to Skin Health

    03:16|
    Most people assume that heartburn automatically means too much stomach acid. That idea has been widely accepted for years. But in practice, it’s not always that simple
  • Why does Africa continue to underperform?

    08:33|
    Scars remain from nearly all of Africa having been aggressively colonised. Greed mixed with racism to crush long-standing social structures while looting resource wealth. However, many of today’s most dynamic economies are former colonies. Their impressive successes followed colonialism’s uprooting of conventions which were becoming outdated. Perhaps colonialism should be categorised as a particularly ugly phase among a long series of highly disruptive industrial-era advances. 
  • Young Farmers and Their Fathers in South Africa’s Family Farming Environment of 2025

    06:31|
    In South Africa’s family farming landscape of 2025, the bakkie might still rumble down dusty roads, but the hands steering it—and the minds shaping its journey—are changing. As agriculture evolves under the pressures of climate change, technology, and shifting markets, a distinct divide emerges between young farmers and their fathers.
  • Your body is designed to follow a natural daily rhythm.

    03:30|
    Your body is designed to follow a natural daily rhythm, rising with morning light and winding down after sunset.
  • South African extra virgin olive oil production

    03:43|
    South African extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) production achieved remarkable success in 2025, particularly through outstanding quality recognition on both national and international stages, despite the country's relatively modest output of around 1.6 million liters annually compared to global giants.