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The annual Karoo Food Festival in Cradock came into its own last weekend, eight years after its modest beginnings and a year after the pandemic saw off the planned 2020 edition. The missing year seemed not to have dented interest in the festival at all, with people heading for Cradock from all over the country, and the portents appear to be very good for a bright and delicious future.
I very nearly did not take part in the 2021 Karoo Food Festival. An experience five years ago in nearby Bedford was enough for me to flee, for life, from any thought along the lines of, “Hey, why don’t we take a stall at the Lower Skilpadfontein Festival and sell sosaties?”
Skyrocketing ginger prices, special tenant rights - Wendy Knowler investigates Updated
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In this, the first Consumerwatch feature of 2021, Wendy Knowler reveals why the price of ginger has skyrocketed, and why the government’s Disaster Management Act regulation preventing landlords from cutting off electricity to tenants who are in arrears is, in reality, hollow protection.
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Peter Jarvis wanted to know why the price of ginger was suddenly so high. He sent Wendy Knowler a photo of the loose ginger he
bought from Underberg Spar this week - at R410,26 per kg! That means his 314g of the aromatic root cost him a whopping R128,82. A month ago, the same store was selling ginger for “just” R90,85 per kg.