This past week the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its monthly flagship report, the World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report.
In an overwhelming society, the sardine run can be a place of quiet contemplation and solitude.As the shoals moved up the coast last week, national debate and protest raged in the public domain about Eskom, Karpowership, gas and oil exploration rights, cholera, dead children and heinous corruption in Hammanskraal, and here, dire warnings about the potential for this killer “Third World” disease in Makhanda.