Hidden harvest: Hazardous pesticides found in SA infant food and staple crops

Daily Maverick | 28.06.2026 23:31
“From 2005 to 2012, South Africa’s domestic use of glyphosate, one of the world’s most widely used herbicides, increased from 12 million litres to 20 million litres,” said Daily Maverick journalist Lillian Roberts, at a webinar on Poison On Your Plate? SA’s battle to ban highly hazardous pesticides.