El Niño: SA farmers urged to prepare for a punishing summer

MoneywebJeremy Maggs · 19 October 2026 at 13:01

‘If people are not going to be proactive on this, it will have an effect on them. I do not believe that all the scientists in the world who predict this will, all collectively, be wrong,’ says Agriculture Minister Willie Aucamp.
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