Entries by Lucius Phaleng

MACROECONOMIC DIGEST: NOVEMBER 2017

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The NAMC’s Macroeconomic Digest is a quarterly publication that evaluates averages or trends of selected macro indicators in the South African economy. This report publishes selected macroeconomic indicators including but not limited to: the real gross domestic product (GDP), employment, crude oil and exchange rate, average prime interest rate, private consumption expenditure, farm income and expenditure […]

Agripreneur Issue 11: Dec 2017

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Presented in Agripreneur 11 are the following topics: (1) Communal cattle farmers generate over R100 million over a period of five years through the NRMDP, (2) Some of the reasons for low success of the cooperative in rural areas, (3) Eco-labelling standards as means to improve market access for smallholder farmers, (4) Implications of the […]

Agripreneur Issue 10: Sep 2017

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Presented in Agripreneur 10 are the following topics: (1) The story of Mr. Mambi, farming as a retirement option (2) A communal farmer nets two hundred thousand rands in the Nkandla cattle auction (3) The effort of transformation in the agriculture sector, and lastly, the NAMC Transformation Review Commitee (TRC) visits black-players in the South […]