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Waking up at 3am or 4am and struggling to fall back asleep is often assumed to be anxiety or insomnia, but in many cases it may simply reflect how your natural sleep cycle is functioning.

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.

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

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 Their impressive successes followed colonialism’s uprooting of conventions which were becoming outdated.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. 

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, rising with morning light and winding down after sunset.

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.

South African farmers exporting table grapes, citrus, apples, and maize may face challenges adapting to the EU's Farm to Fork Strategy, which aims to reduce pesticide use and promote sustainable farming under the EU Green Deal. The strategy targets a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and promotes organic farming but could impose stricter standards on exporting nations.