The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development would like to report on an outbreak of avian influenza (AI) on a commercial farm in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng.

African swine fever (ASF) is a fatal disease affecting domestic pigs, European Wild boars, Warthogs and Bushpigs.

The South African National Consumer Union was reacting to the latest National Agricultural Marketing Council Food Price monitor “which revealed that food prices had increased by a whopping 9,8% in January compared to January 2020.”