South Africa nervously awaits EU citrus ban news
An extended European ban on South African citrus fruit could be “an industry-ending event” according ...
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By Alex Lennane
Scare stories about dangerous tropical insects – particularly poisonous spiders, the bête noire of the European imagination – have been rife in recent weeks, and authorities in Rotterdam were this week put on high alarm after the crew of the 4,000teu DAL Stellenbosch found some unusual stowaways amidst containers loaded with citrus fruit on its voyage from Cape Town to Rotterdam.
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