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Drought warning: El Niño on steroids is on the horizon | SA News

13 April 2026 by Guest

The prospects of a return of the El Niño weather ­pattern, which typically brings drought to southern Africa, are rising and there are ­indications that it could be particularly intense – a state of affairs that will herald hunger and misery for tens of millions of people in this region.

South Africa’s hi-tech and capital-intensive agricultural sector will – as it did in the last El Niño – partly cushion the effects in the country, but they will still be harsh. The production of crops such as the staple maize will decline, and a livestock sector already waylaid by ­foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks will suffer further blows.

And subsistence farmers throughout the region will once again…

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