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It looks so good: How Charity Adupong is redefining local cuisine in Tema, Ghana

It looks so good: How Charity Adupong is redefining local cuisine in Tema, Ghana

FOR years, Charity Adupong's shopping experiences were marked with disappointment as she searched for nutritious local foods in major shopping malls and retail stores. The few that were on the shelves lacked attractive packaging. Increasingly she realised that a huge opportunity existed in providing shoppers with well-packaged indigenous foods. She decided to tap into the growing demand. “I have never liked the way our markets are structured so I used to shop from where I bought regular local foods like tomatoes, beans… as a young person who had just come to Tema as a National Service Personnel. On one of…
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‘Enough!’: SA residents act to stop looting, arson

‘Enough!’: SA residents act to stop looting, arson

ORDINARY South Africans, annoyed by the wanton looting and violence which has cost lives and damage running into billions of rands, have taken to the streets to defend shopping malls and private residences. In Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, the two provinces that have experience looting of shopping malls, ordinary residents, with the help of the community policing forums and the South African National Taxi Company, have decided that they could no longer leave the protection of the livelihoods to the law enforcement agencies, who were battling to cope. In Durban, residents, supported by private security guards manned roadblocks to protect their…
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