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How do weather conditions affect the pricing of food?

                   Image: Tyrren Jameson  Mdunge Skhumbuzo The social grant benefits have reacted to the price hike of vegetables. Most of them said they only shop by the end of the month because they rarely travel into town. The earnings for this month have already started on 05 February 2020.    The Botha’s Hill farmer, Fikile Mkhize, said they are vegetables that only germinate in the summer season.  “By this time of the season, I only harvest Beans, Corn, Pepper, Pumpkin, and Sweet Potatoes. Then, in the winter season, I plant cabbages, carrots, lettuce, and spinach. The winter vegetables cannot survive under severe heat. For example, if you plant spinach in the summer season, you will notice that the leaves would be burn."    The Botha’s Hill Spar Manager, Mr. JP, said the winter vegetables are becoming very expensive in the summer season. "It very difficult to get the merchandise of winter vegetables in the summer season. For example, if I buy cabbages and spina

Omama Kumele bayeke ukuya emangcwabeni

      Umnikazi wesithombe: Ihsaan Haffejee  Mdunge Skhumbuzo Umfundisi wase Apostol 12 KwaNyuswa, uthe njengoba kufuneka abantu abawu 50 emangcwabeni, omama kumele bayeke ukuya khona ngoba ayikho into abayenzayo.   Mhla lulunye kweliphezulu, uMongameli Cyril Ramaphosa wethule inkulumo ebheke esizweni nalapho ebuyekeze yonke imiqathango okumele igcinwe ngesikhathi se Covid-19. Amasonto asebalwe njengezinye izindawo ezivumelekile ukuthi zivulwe, kodwa isibalo samakholwa sisazogcina kwangamashumi amahlanu kuya ekhulwini. UMongameli uphinde wakhuthaza ukuthi nasemangcwabeni isibalo sabantu kuzomele sigcine kwesingamashumi amahlanu kuphela. Lokho okuchaza ukuthi abantu okuvumeleke ukuthi baye emangcwabeni, amalunga omndeni kuphela.  Umfundisi Oscar Sibiya uthe abantu besilisa ibona okubaluleke kakhulu ukuthi babekhona emangcwabeni.  “Ezindaweni zasemakhaya, amadoda iwona asebenzayo kakhulu ngoba afike agumbe amathuna. Ngakhoke ize nathi sinawo umsebenzi wethu njengamakholwa, kodwa iqini