President Nangolo Mbumba has revealed that the government has made a budget allocation of N$8 million to revive the now-defunct Kalimbeza Rice Project in the Zambezi Region and approved plans to set up a sugar plantation on part of Kalimbeza, as well as a sugar processing plant in Katima Mulilo. “I am pleased to inform...
Private School Swakopmund (PSS) yesterday kicked off the academic year for Grade 1 pupils with the German tradition of ‘Zuckertüte’ (sugar cones). This involves giving children starting school a cone-shaped paper or carboard container filled with toys, stationery, and sweets. The tradition is popular among both German and English-stream pupils at the school. The school...
Soaring sugar prices are hitting Africa’s poorest nations hard, forcing families and restaurants to cut back on this essential ingredient due to disappointing harvests and import tariffs. Bloomberg News reports that disappointing harvests in major sugar-producing countries have driven wholesale prices to their highest levels in over 12 years. Consumers in Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, and...
Sixty thousand tonnes of white sugar and 11 million liters of ethanol were placed on the national market in June this year, the Angolan Bioenergy Company (BIOCOM) said on Friday. Dubbed “Kapanda Sugar”, the product has been sold throughout the country at price of 28,000 kwanzas per 50-kilogram bag, according to the company’s director of...