British multinational premium drinks giant Diageo has announced that its chief executive officer Sir Ivan Menezes has died following a brief illness. He was due to retire at the end of this month.
Industry body Agri SA says it had a constructive meeting with officials from the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) on the recently published draft regulations regarding procedural requirements for water use licence applications – or race quotas for future water use. The department has reportedly clarified its intention that the provisions regarding black South African shareholdings with respect to licence applications would be limited to new applications and would not extend to existing water use entitlements.