Tongaat’s sugar operations improving after tumultuous years
After experiencing numerous difficult years, including two years eight months in still ongoing business rescue, operations of the renowned Tongaat ...
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Sugar industry celebrates competition freedoms to negotiate and diversify
South Africa’s primary sugarcane value chain is ecstatic at being granted exemptions from aspects of competition law. Albeit strictly controlled, ...
South Africa’s agricultural growth narrative for 2025
Last week, we received South Africa’s first-quarter GDP data. One sector that some may be observing is the performance of agriculture, ...
Bitter divisions on sugar tax as budget speech 2.0 looms
Stakeholders within South Africa’s sugarcane value chain have wasted no time in using the startling postponement of the national budget ...
Plans to stop small grower sugar slide
Government is committed to ensuring the growth and success of the sugar industry’s black small-scale growers (SSGs), Agriculture Minister John ...
Parent body calls for feuding sugar industry players to ‘join hands’
Two industry role players representing sugarcane growers are embroiled in a heated public dispute over the allocation of funding for ...
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