Largely owned and managed by municipalities, fresh produce markets play a crucial role within value chains, facilitating the exchange of produce between farmers, large-scale buyers such as retailers and distributors, and informal vendors.
The rot started in the new SA when South Africans started attacking the institutions that were established to protect them and, as state capture spread, accountability vanished, says former national director of public prosecutions, Bulelani Ngcuka.
It was not only humiliating for Ramaphosa, it doesn't bode well for a country in desperate need of strong and assertive leadership, writes Barney Mthombothi.
The ANC-led government had an opportunity after 1994 to address land reform but a number of factors, including corruption and failure to speed up land restitution for five million affected people, meant the country was far away from ensuring land redress.