South Africa risks a mid-winter food security crisis after banning chicken imports from Brazil amid an avian flu outbreak.

The NSPCA has described shocking scenes at Daybreak chicken broiler farms as food ... A humanitarian crisis has unfolded behind the walls of South Africa’s state-funded poultry operations ...

This ban, enacted by the Department of Agriculture on 15 May due to an avian flu outbreak in Brazil's Rio Grande Do Sul state ...

Some meat producer in SA use mechanically deboned meat from Brazil to make polony, viennas, russians and braaiwors.

Animal welfare officers faced the grisly task of euthanizing more than 350,000 chickens by hand after they were left starving and cannibalizing each other.

Daybreak Foods, the PIC-backed poultry producer with thousands of employees, is facing liquidation after a failed attempt to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. South Africa’s parliament will summon its state pension fund manager to explain how the failure of a ...

Rainbow Chicken was founded in 1960 as a small family-owned business and has grown to become one of South Africa’s largest poultry producers, with 13.4 billion rand ($734.31 million)revenue in 2023.

Not enough. In the 1990s, one in four children in South Africa had stunted growth, an indicator of chronic hunger. In the 2020s, one in four children are still stunted. So this fundamental ...