JP Landman on South Africa’s failing Municipalities and Local Government
163 of the 278 local authorities in South Africa are in financial distress, and 40 are in serious financial and service delivery crisis.
Ghost towns across South Africa a growing concern for the farming community
The poor service delivery by municipalities is driving business away and leading to ghost towns. We have recently learned of a similar situation with Clover leaving Lichtenburg because of poor service delivery by municipal officials. This challenge is not unique to Lichtenburg but familiar across many towns across South Africa.
Sentiment in South Africa’s agriculture industry shoots to record high in Q2, 2021
South Africa’s agricultural sector has not, in the recent past, had a season as good as the current one. This is evident from the Agbiz/IDC Agribusiness Confidence Index (ACI), which in the second quarter of this year reached a record high (since its inception in 2001) of 75, from 64 in the first quarter of 2021.
My Talking Head on Magic Markets Podcast
This week I joined The Finance Ghost and Mohammed Nalla (Moe-Knows) to discuss the investment opportunity in the South African agricultural sector.
South Africa’s agriculture in good shape despite quarterly blip
The decline in the sector’s output for the 3 months ending March likely to be temporary with bumper harvests expected.
