[TOP STORY] Would you eat a cricket? The untapped business of edible insects

Loading player...

‘We are intending to, at the end, have a value chain where you have the production, the harvesting, as well as the sales of edible insects,’ says Professor Abdullahi Ahmed Yusuf, Department of Zoology and Entomology at the University of Pretoria.

27 Jun 8AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

Other recent episodes

[TOP STORY] GNU on the brink? What Zille and the Presidency had to say

Helen Zille warns of deepening rifts in the coalition government, while Vincent Magwenya insists the Presidency remains committed to unity.

30 Jun 8AM 15 min

Visa refusal: Court rules SA missions must fall in line

Jeremy Maggs in conversation with DA federal chair Helen Zille and Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya, as the DA exits the national dialogue and threatens a vote of no confidence against the President over the axing of a deputy minister.

30 Jun 6AM 33 min

Deputy minister axing jeopardises GNU

As funeral and burial costs soar, are South Africans sufficienty insured? The digitalisation of the labour court still has a ways to go according to legal experts. And a look at why insects could be the protein source of tomorrow.

27 Jun 5AM 33 min

[TOP STORY] Leon Schreiber on the reasoning behind new ID check costs

‘More than half of real-time verifications do not succeed currently, and that is a risk to national security when you have a system that is performing that poorly,’ says the Minister of Home Affairs.

26 Jun 8AM 8 min

Brain drain: 49% of young South Africans likely to emigrate

The Home Affairs minister defends the 6 500% hike in ID verification fees. What operational challenges at the Joburg Deeds Office mean for property sellers and estate agents’ cash flow? And SA’s national bird uplisted to vulnerable.

26 Jun 6AM 31 min

All episodes