Government has announced plans to broaden the zero-rated Vat food basket, aiming to protect vulnerable South African households from rising costs ...

The government plans to expand the zero-rated VAT food basket from 19 to 44 items, aiming to make essentials affordable for ...

The Competition Commission of South Africa, which released their Essential ... “We have noted increases in food items such as maize meal, potatoes, cake flour, oil, samp, and brown bread ...

The African National Congress (ANC) has taken decisive action to alleviate the burden of soaring food prices on South African consumers ... including brown bread, maize meal, and various pulses.

Celebrated chefs from Africa and the Caribbean have decried highly populated places within Africa that choose not to ...

Government has issued 807 import permits to 420 private companies to bring in 4 131 260 tonnes of maize by March next ... Zimbabwe largely imports grain from South Africa, Zambia and Mozambique.

The head of the ANC’s economic transformation subcommittee says that the government plans to expand the zero-rated VAT food basket in an effort to shield vulnerable households in South Africa.

On a dusty schoolyard in Kajiado County, south of Nairobi ... receive what for many is the only hot meal they’ll have that day. On the menu: ugali maize porridge made of fortified whole grain ...