Police spokesperson, Sabata Mokgwabone, says three men are believed to have been involved in the attack on Schalk Coetzee and his wife, Lana, who were brutally assaulted and robbed on Saturday morning. According to Mokgwabone, Schalk was also thrown with boiling water and was tied up after which the attackers fled with the couple's two cell phones, a bank card, and their vehicle. A neighbour became suspicious and went to the couple's farmhouse after which police were alerted to the scene. He says neigbouring police stations were also alerted.

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Wandile Sihlobo, chief economist at the Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa, Agbiz, says the role of the South African and Zambian maize industries in the southern and eastern African regions will remain significant in the 2020/21 marketing year ending in April 2021. Within the Southern Africa region, the recent data released by Zimbabwe’s ministry of lands and agriculture placed its 2019/20 maize harvest at 907 628 tonnes. This is an increase of 17% from the previous season, but it is still  below Zimbabwe’s 10-year average maize production of 1.1 million tonnes and annual domestic consumption needs of between 1.9 and 2.0 million tonnes.

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