In a bid to help alleviate the scourge of hunger in South Africa which has been further exacerbated by COVID-19, RMB and FNB have donated R3m from the FirstRand SPIRE fund to assist FoodForward South Africa (“FFSA”) set up operations in the Mpumalanga province. FFSA is widely respected for the ...

Comment by Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural economist at FNB Agri-Business After lifting the 2019/20 maize harvest estimate by 2.4% to 15.89 million tons in its May 2020 report, the National Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) made a downward revision of the total maize output to 15.51 million tons ...