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Sugar industry wants delay on increasing tax crippling the sector

The sector says the health promotion tax introduced in 2018 has hurt sugar producers and cost jobs

  • Eyaaz
3 min read
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Not so sweet: Sugar industry stakeholders fight about funding

Small-scale and black-owned sugarcane farmers along with land reform beneficiaries have received R238.9 million in funding for transformation, but transparency has now become an issue

  • Des Erasmus
2 min read

RGS abandons Tongaat bid, claims business rescue is rigged

Bidder says rescue practitioners tried to manipulate process to favour ANC funder Robert Gumede

  • Des Erasmus
3 min read
Friday’s crucial creditors vote on a business rescue plan for troubled sugar giant Tongaat Hulett is set to be delayed again by court action by the South African Sugar Association (Sasa) to secure the R1.5 billion in unpaid industry levies it is owed. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

UPDATED: Crucial Tongaat Hulett creditors vote is postponed again as parties head to court over unpaid industry levies

ANC funder Robert Gumede’s bid for the sugar giant may be on the rocks

  • Eyaaz
8 min read