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Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Senzeni Zokwana recently joined her counterparts from Brazil, Russia, India and China for the 7th Meeting of the BRICS Ministers of Agriculture and Agrarian Development, held in China.

International relations / Africa news

President Hery Rajaonarimampianina of Madagascar has urged South African businesses to invest in his island country, which lies on a major sea route between Asia and Africa.

A thousand households from Ofafa village in Harry Gwala District Municipality will soon live in decent housing, thanks to the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Human Settlements. The R110 million housing project was recently handed over by MEC for Human Settlements Ravigasen Pillay.

The Department of Human Settlements’ new development finance bank will help bridge the gap for people who don’t qualify for commercial bank loans or government housing assistance.

Youth focus

The Victor Khanye Municipality and the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) have partnered to open a new branch office in the town of Delmas. The office will extend the reach of youth services in Mpumalanga.

Youth focus

Small and medium-sized companies in the Eastern Cape stand to benefit from new digital technology through a partnership between Vodacom and the province’s Chamber of Business.

The lives of 84 young people from the poverty-stricken community of Inanda in north of Durban are set to change for the better thanks to a KwaZulu-Natal Department of Transport project under the Expanded Public Works Programme.

Tears flowed when 84-year-old Thobekile Mkhize switched on the electricity in her home for the first time, after the KwaZulu-Natal government launched its R8.6 million electrification project in the rural Nquthu community.

Funding from the Eastern Cape Development Corporation is helping rural farmers process their raw produce, adding value to their crops and boosting their incomes.

Imvaba finance of R500 000 has allowed the co-op to build a small processing plant to mill its maize crop into livestock feed and retail maize meal.