South Africa offloading Argentine, Ukrainian yellow maize, orders Mexican white

JOHANNESBURG/HAMBURG (Reuters) - South Africa, which needs to import millions of tonnes of maize this year because of drought, will in coming months import hundreds of thousands of tonnes of white maize from Mexico, traders in South Africa and elsewhere told Reuters. Africa's most advanced economy is also set to receive 228,400 tonnes of the yellow variety of the grain between now and March 17th, according to Thomson Reuters' interactive shipping map. (Reporting by Ed Stoddard and Michael Hogan;