Sona 2023: Sugar industry has paid R216 million to help small-scale growers – government should aid these efforts
Press Statement by Andrew Russell Chairperson at SA Canegrowers 8 February 2023 SA Canegrowers welcomes the disbursement of more than R79 million in transformation funding by the South African Sugar Association for small-scale growers at the end […]
Treasury misses deadline to give reasoning for job-killing sugar tax increase
Press Statement by Andrew Russell Chairman SA Canegrowers February 1, 2023 National Treasury has missed the 30-day legislative deadline to respond to a Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) application submitted by SA Canegrowers to provide […]
Treasury must eliminate the sugar tax or face a sugar industry collapse
SA Canegrowers has made a submission to the National Treasury calling on Minister Enoch Godongwana to not only suspend the increase in the sugar tax, but to eliminate the tax entirely in light of the crisis in […]
Government urged to assist as Tongaat Hulett business rescue gets underway
PRESS STATEMENT BY ANDREW RUSSELL CHAIRPERSON AT SA CANEGROWERS Today, 2 November 2022, SA Canegrowers had a constructive engagement with the Business Rescue Practitioners appointed in the Tongaat Hulett Limited (THL) matter. Based on this engagement, SA […]
Tongaat Business Rescue: Over R400 million in cane grower payments at imme
PRESS STATEMENT BY ANDREW RUSSELL CHAIRPERSON AT SA CANEGROWERS 28 OCTOBER 2022 SA Canegrowers is deeply concerned by the announcement that Tongaat Hulett Limited has entered its South African operations into business rescue due to the catastrophic […]
MTBPS: Infrastructure investment of limited benefit while sugar tax throttles cane growers
SA Canegrowers welcomes the commitment by Minister Godongwana in his Medium Term Budget Policy Statement to address the damage to infrastructure caused by the floods of April 2022 in KwaZulu Natal. We are, however, disappointed that he […]
Top achiever follows her dream at SA Canegrowers
Eston Area Manager, Ikageng Maluleke, cites transformation particularly in the numbers of women employed in the sugarcane industry, as a highlight since she was employed by SA Canegrowers earlier this year. From a young age, Ikageng Maluleke […]
Sugar Tax puts thousands of jobs at risk
“Ill-conceived sugar tax risks thousands of jobs and the livelihoods of small-scale farmers”, Andrew Russell Chairman SA Canegrowers The sugar tax cost South Africa more than 16,000 jobs and R2.05bn in 2019 alone — a year after its […]
Applications for sugar bursaries open
Sugar industry provides R5 million in funding for tertiary bursaries – applications deadline 31 October 2022 The Sugar Industry Trust Fund for Education (SITFE) has opened applications for bursaries for first-year students pursuing tertiary studies in science, […]