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 | NQOBILE DLUDLA, SYBILLE DE LA HAMAIDE AND GUS TROMPIZ Soufflet Malt and Heineken have entered into a commercial partnership in which the French grain group will invest $108.51m to build a new malting factory in South Africa to supply malt to the Dutch brewer... Read |
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 | NELSON BANYA Rainbow Chicken has reported a more than 14-fold surge in half-year profit as the company bounced back from South Africa's worst bird flu outbreak in 2023, which wiped out a third of the national chicken flock... Read |
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 | Renowned South African playwright, actor and director Athol Fugard has died at the age of 92 at his Stellenbosch home after a long illness... Read |
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