South African Sugar Industry Directory

The South African Sugar Industry Directory is an annual publication produced by SASA Design: Lightship Communications SASA Website: http://www.sasa.org.za

S O U T H

A F R I C A N

S U G A R

INDUSTRY D I R E C T O R Y 2 0 0 8 / 2 0 0 9

WHERE ARE WE LOCATED?

MOZAMBIQUE

Malelane Komati

MPUMALANGA SWAZILAND

Pongola

FREE STATE

KWAZULU-NATAL Umfolozi Felixton

LESOTHO

Amatikulu Darnall Gledhow Maidstone

UCL Company Noodsburg PIETERMARITZBURG

Eston

DURBAN

Sezela Umzimkulu

EASTERN CAPE IRRIGATED AREAS RAIN FED AREAS SUGAR MILLS

Publications

The SA Sugar Association has publications available to the public which describe in full detail the diverse aspects of the sugar industry. Please contact the External Affairs Division on (031) 508 7000 or e-mail: [email protected]

Publications

■ Map of the SA Sugar Industry ■ From Cane to Crystals ■ Industry Educational Material – OBE Teacher’s Pack

Information distributed by the South African Sugarcane Research Institute Please contact the Librarian at (031) 508 7514 or write to: The Librarian, South African Sugarcane Research Institute, Private Bag X02, Mount Edgecombe 4300. E-mail: [email protected] ■ SA Sugarcane Research Institute Progress Report ■ The Link (Technical Newsletter) ■ Technical Bulletins ■ Information Sheets ■ SASTA Proceedings ■ Research Reports ■ Herbicide Guide ■ Ingede (Zulu Newsletter) ■ Small-scale Grower Poster Series ■ Sugarcane Certificate course notes

Website

For further information visit the SASA Website: http://www.sasa.org.za

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Educational Brochures

P U B L I C A T I O N S

■ SA Sugar Journal – Available on subscription ■ SA Sugar Development Brochure

CONTENTS

THE SOUTH AFRICAN SUGAR INDUSTRY The South African Sugar Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Economic Contribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Sugar Industry Contribution to Sustainable Development and Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Market Competitiveness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Sugar and Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 Cane Growing in South Africa and the SA Cane Growers’ Association (CANEGROWERS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Sugar Milling and Refining and the SA Sugar Millers’ Association Limited (SASMAL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 South African Sugar Association (SASA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 FACTS & FIGURES Industry Production Figures and Graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 DIRECTORY SA Sugar Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 SA Cane Growers’ Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Local Grower Council Secretaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Grocane Fire Insurance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 SA Sugar Millers’ Association Limited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Illovo Sugar Limited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Tongaat Hulett Sugar Limited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Tsb Sugar RSA Limited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 UCL Company Limited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Ushukela Milling Limited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Mill Group Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Research Organisations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Labour Organisations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Inkezo Land Company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 INDUSTRY INFORMATION Historical Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

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I N F O R M A T I O N

THE SOUTH AFRICAN SUGAR INDUSTRY

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The canegrowing sector comprises of approximately 42 300 registered sugarcane growers farming predominantly in KwaZulu-Natal, with a substantial investment in Mpumalanga and some farming operations in the Eastern Cape. Sugar is manufactured by five milling companies with 14 sugarmills operating in these canegrowing regions. The industry produces an estimated average of 2,3 million tons of sugar per season. About 60% of this sugar is marketed in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). The remainder is exported to markets including those in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTION

I N D U S T R Y

It is a diverse industry combining the agricultural activities of sugarcane cultivation with the manufacture of raw and refined sugar, syrups, specialised sugars and a range of byproducts.

I N F O R M A T I O N

The South African sugar industry is one of the world’s leading cost competitive producers of high quality sugar and makes an important contribution to employment, particularly in rural areas, to sustainable development and to the national economy.

Sugar And The Economy The South African sugar industry makes an important contribution to the national economy, given its agricultural and industrial investments, foreign exchange earnings, its high employment, and its linkages with major suppliers, support industries and customers.

Based on revenue generated through sugar sales in the SACU region as well as world market exports, the South African sugar industry is responsible for generating an annual estimated average direct income of R7 billion. This constitutes R4,5 billion in value of sugar cane production.

Employment The sugar industry makes an important contribution to direct employment in cane production and processing, and provides indirect employment for numerous support industries in the three provinces where sugarcane is grown and processed, namely KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and the Eastern Cape in sectors such as fertiliser, fuel, chemical, transport, food and services. Direct employment within the sugar industry is approximately 77 000 jobs, which represent a significant percentage of the total agricultural workforce in South Africa. Indirect employment is estimated at 350 000. In addition there are approximately 42 300 registered cane growers. Approximately one million people depend on the sugar industry for a living.

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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND BROAD-BASED BLACK ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

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The sugar industry’s focus on producing a high quality, profitable and cost effective product is complemented by its focus on sustainable development. This all-inclusive approach includes land reform, education and training, social investment, and the promotion of sound and sustainable practises. In addition to initiatives undertaken as an industry, the South African Cane Growers’ Association and the sugar milling companies undertake development projects and are involved in Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment through a range of important initiatives. The sugar industry is a major contributor to rural development, often neglected in an urbanising society. Its focus on sustainable development is broadly summarised under the following three main areas that impact directly on the future sustainability of the South African sugar industry:

Economic Transformation The industry’s initiatives in the areas of economic transformation could best be summarised under its commitment to Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE), with focus on land reform, farmer support services, employment equity and enterprise ownership. Agricultural Land Made Available To Black Growers The South African sugar industry has long recognised the need to promote diverse ownership of agricultural land under sugarcane by competent farmers and have a range of support instruments in place to promote the sustainability of such initiatives. As a result, 17% of freehold land under sugarcane has already been transferred to black growers. In order to progress the industry’s target of 30% black ownership of freehold sugarcane land by 2014, the industry has established an independent land reform entity, called INKEZO Land Company. INKEZO’s primary objective is to streamline transfer of ownership by identifying sellers and buyers, streamlining processes of land reform and promoting the sustainability of the new ventures through outsourced support service providers or partners. Furthermore, since 1994 more than 250 black growers have been supported to buy commercial farms of land previously owned by milling companies and white farmers.

Mentorship programmes focussing on business skills and grower support extension services are deployed to support cane-growing activities. The South African Cane Growers' Association also provides technical skills training for new and emerging cane growers, via the Agriseta scheme, mentorship programmes, accounts and financial management workshops, regional economic advisors, a grower support service officer and assistance with a special VAT and diesel dispensation for small-scale growers. The South African Cane Growers' Association has bolstered its regional economic service to provide local level support to new medium-scale black growers who have entered the industry since 1994, as well as beneficiaries of the government's land reform programme. The milling companies provide extensive support services in support of the cane-growing operations of small-scale, medium-scale and large-scale black farmers. The South African Sugar Association trains emerging medium-scale growers, provides in-field training to small-scale growers, offers certified courses to users in sugarcane agriculture, technology transfer and extension initiatives and various community outreach programmes.

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The South African sugar industry has a long history of promoting and supporting small-scale farmers on tribal land. Building on the extensive infrastructure and network of the growers and millers, the industry has been able to engage effectively in ongoing delivery related projects.

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Provision of Agricultural Support Services

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All participants in the industry promote compliance with the Employment Equity Act, and have integrated Employment Equity and Skills Development Plans in place that are monitored and updated annually. These have targets for recruiting, developing and promoting people from designated groups. Enterprise Ownership On an industry level, role-players in the sugar industry have been actively promoting and implementing the objectives of the Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment Act, and the Broadbased Black Economic Empowerment Strategy for some time. Substantial progress has been made towards improving the ownership profile of the industry. Initiatives embarked upon by major South African milling companies have resulted in black ownership of manufacturing activities being 12% and of refining activities being 7%.

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Employment Equity

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Social Investment

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The industry has fostered a culture of self reliance and caring for those victimised by poverty and HIV and AIDS, provided seed funding to assist rural black women, youth and communities to establish co-operatives and access economic opportunities. Ultimately, the social investment and enterprise development programmes will create employment while also eradicating poverty. Typically rural areas have amongst the country's highest incidences of HIV and AIDS. This impacts directly upon the industry and its workforce. Meeting the challenge of this disease is a priority for the sugar industry. Activities include school education awareness campaigns, as the industry is uniquely placed to conduct outreach education and present campaigns in deep rural areas. The industry also funds home-based care initiatives for individuals and households infected and affected by HIV and AIDS. Human resource development is a major area of social investment for the sugar industry. The following initiatives are maintained by the industry to promote human resource development, and are primarily focussed on promoting Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment. The Sugar Industry Trust Fund for Education (SITFE) SITFE was launched in 1965 as a private sector initiative, and is one of South Africa’s oldest education and training programmes. In its 43 year history, SITFE has provided bursaries to more than 9 000 students, financed school building projects, given assistance to tertiary institutions, and has worked closely with community-based educational authorities to improve overall education standards.

The South African Sugarcane Research Institute (SASRI) Since 1925, SASRI has provided a service to cane growers who benefit from specialist advice in all aspects of sugarcane agriculture such as new varieties, agronomy, pathology, crop nutrition and soils, entomology and agricultural engineering. The link between SASRI’s scientific expertise and cane growers is provided through extension specialists who are stationed in the industry’s cane producing regions.

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The STC provides agricultural and engineering training in most trades for the sugar industry and a broad spectrum of other industries. This excellent facility also provides training for the SADC region and many learners from other African countries have been trained at the Centre.

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The Shukela Training Centre (STC)

The Sugar Milling Research Institute (SMRI)

Health Education The South African Sugar Association's nutrition department has developed a focused programme to communicate science-based information on the role of sugar as part of a balanced diet and balanced lifestyles to health professionals and the wider public via the media. The program also contributes to capacity building and continued professional development of health professionals through support of nutrition research, congresses and nutrition education.

Sustainable Environment The South African Sugar Association actively promotes sound and sustainable environmental practises within the industry in line with national legislation and international requirements. This is achieved through its support for environmental committees located in the sugarcane producing areas and also through active involvement in promoting sustainable resource management through a Memorandum of Understanding with the WWF South Africa. The industry is involved in a Southern African Development Community wide initiative aimed at establishing a guide on environmental best management practises for the regional sugar industries.

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The SMRI is the central scientific organisation involved in research work and technical services for the southern African sugar manufacturing/milling industries. It was founded in 1949 and is located on the Durban campus of the University of KwaZuluNatal.

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MARKET COMPETITIVENESS South Africa continues to be one of the world’s most cost competitive producers of high quality sugar. According to independent surveys of the costs of production of more than 100 global sugar industries, the South African sugar industry consistently ranks amongst the top 15. Its excellent export infrastructure, world-renowned agricultural and industrial research platforms and efficient industry organisation are key drivers of excellence. Despite its comparative production efficiencies, the South African sugar industry finds it difficult from time to time to export profitably to the world market, as the global sugar price is severely eroded by subsidy-induced overproduction in some major sugar-producing countries. Access to the major markets for raw and refined sugar is furthermore restricted by high tariffs and preferential trade arrangements in the form of tariff rate quotas. These same global market distortions also threaten the maintenance of a profitable and sustainable sugar price on the domestic market. Government’s strategic support for the South African sugar industry recognises the distorted nature of the world market for sugar, and the severe impact of producer support measures on price determination on the global market. Based on these considerations government support includes intervention in the following three areas: Tariff protection against disruptively low world sugar prices; Provision for the establishment of equitable export obligations for millers and growers; and the Sugar Cooperation Agreement between the members of the Southern African Development Community.

Tariff protection

The Southern African Development Community Sugar Cooperation Agreement A Southern African Development Community Sugar Co-operation Agreement has been established and is incorporated into the SADC Trade Protocol. The main objectives of the SADC Sugar Co-operation Agreement are: •

To promote, within the region, production and consumption of sugar and sugar-containing products according to fair trading conditions and an orderly regional market in sugar for the survival of the sugar industries in all sugar producing member states, in anticipation of freer global trade;

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To create a stable climate for investment, leading to growth and development of sugar industries in the member states;

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To improve the competitiveness of the sugar-producing member states in the world market;

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To facilitate the sharing of information, research and training with a view to improve the efficiency of growers, millers and refiners of sugar in member states;

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To facilitate the development of small and medium sugar enterprises; and

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To create stable market conditions in the member states so as to encourage the rehabilitation and development of all sugar industries with a view of facilitating direct foreign investment and the creation of employment opportunities.

The South African Government’s support for these three essential pillars supporting the sugar industry is endorsed in the Department of Trade and Industry and the South African Sugar Industry’s Joint Strategy for the Optimal Development of the Sugar Industry within a South African Customs Union (SACU) and SADC Context that was completed in 1999.

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The profitability of the industry’s exports to the world market is from time to time severely affected by a subsidy-induced oversupply of global demand. The South African sugar industry exports approximately 40% of its sugar production to the world market at prices substantially below the domestic sugar price. In order to distribute exposure to the world market equitably amongst growers and millers, a redistribution of proceeds is effected via the South African Sugar Association. The Sugar Act and the Sugar Industry Agreement provide regulatory support for the redistribution of proceeds.

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Equitable export obligations

I N F O R M A T I O N

The industry is protected through a dollar-based reference price tariff system that is based on the long-term average world price for sugar, adjusted for distortions, which only delivers protection when the world price drops below this level.

STRUCTURE Underpinning the pillars of support is the structure of the industry.

I N D U S T R Y

I N F O R M A T I O N

Council of the SA Sugar Association The South African Sugar Association administers the partnership on behalf of the South African Cane Growers’ Association and the South African Sugar Millers’ Association Ltd. As equal partners, each member elects eleven councillors to sit on the SA Sugar Association Council. The Chairmanship and Vice-Chairmanship of Council usually alternates every two years between a grower and a miller. The South African Sugar Association is an autonomous organisation and operates free of government control. In terms of the Sugar Act and Sugar Industry Agreement, statutory powers of self governance are granted to the sugar industry. The South African Sugar Association’s administrative and industrial activities and organisations are financed from the proceeds of the sale of local and export sugars. Its affairs are administered by the Council of the SA Sugar Association.

ORGANISATION OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SUGAR INDUSTRY

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GROWERS

MILLERS

5 Milling Companies 14 LOCAL GROWER COUNCILS

Illovo Sugar Ltd (6 Mills) Tongaat Hulett Sugar Ltd (4 Mills) Tsb Sugar RSA Ltd (2 Mills) UCL Company Ltd (1 Mill) Ushukela Milling Ltd (Pty) (1 Mill)

SA CANE GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION

SA SUGAR MILLERS’ ASSOCIATION LTD

SOUTH AFRICAN SUGAR ASSOCIATION COUNCIL

I N F O R M A T I O N I N D U S T R Y

Sugar is a natural sweetener of plant origin and it is 100% carbohydrate and 100% natural. The sugars made by plants are sucrose, glucose and fructose. All three are found in varying amounts in most fruits and many vegetables. All carbohydrate rich foods have the same role in the body once digested. They provide glucose, the primary fuel for the body. The dietary source of the carbohydrate is no longer significant. The sucrose from sugar cane is identical to the sucrose present in fruits and vegetables. In recent years the growing incidence in chronic diseases of lifestyle such as diabetes, cardio-vascular disease and obesity, especially in children, has focused the attention of policymakers and media on the consumption of fats and sugar, and the potential contribution of these essential ingredients to the diseases of lifestyle epidemic. Unbalanced and scientifically inaccurate reporting on sugar consumption has led to excessive and negative speculation regarding the value of sugar as part of a balanced daily diet. Eminent bodies such as the World Health Organisation and the Food and Agricultural Organisation agree that sugar, like other carbohydrate-containing foods, has an indispensable role to play in balanced diets. These bodies concluded that there is no evidence of sugar being the direct cause of lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity or cancer.

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Sugar And Health

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C A N E G R O W E R S

CANE GROWING IN SOUTH AFRICA

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SA CANE GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION The South African Cane Growers’ Association (CANEGROWERS) was established in 1927 to administer the interests of independent sugarcane growers. CANEGROWERS is a Section 21 Company (incorporated not for gain) and individual growers are members through the 38 grower groups which make up the member organisations of CANEGROWERS. In each mill area all member organisations are represented by a Local Grower Council. The democratic nature of the representation structure allows for the election of any individual cane farmer to the Executive Committee or Chairmanship of the organisation. This, typically, would be through a region's Local Farmers' Association, its Local Grower Council, the centrally based Board of Directors (56 members) from which a Chairman and Vice-Chairman are elected annually, and finally to the Executive Committee (11 members). An Executive Director, management team, economists and staff administer the day to day business of CANEGROWERS, by: •

Providing specialised services, supported by technical and economic research.

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Enhancing agricultural, economic and institutional capacity through skills development support and mentorship.

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Representing the collective body of all cane growers in all relevant forums.

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Lobbying, advocacy and communication with stakeholders.

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Utilising limited resources to maximum effect within CANEGROWERS' business objective.

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There are approximately 1 660 large-scale growers (inclusive of the 358 black emerging farmers) who produce 82,55% of total sugarcane production. Milling companies with their own sugar estates produce 8,1% of the crop. This percentage of the total crop produced by these miller-cum-planter estates has decreased in recent years and is likely to continue to do so as the companies promote more black farming development.

C A N E G R O W E R S

The approximately 42 300 registered sugarcane growers annually produce on average 22 million tons of sugarcane from 14 mill supply areas, extending from Northern Pondoland in the Eastern Cape to the Mpumalanga Lowveld. More than 40 600 are small-scale growers, of whom 17 797 delivered cane last season, producing 9,35% of the total crop. With the growth of economic development and empowerment of previously disadvantaged people, a growing number of black farmers are continuing to enter sugarcane agriculture.

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R E F I N I N G

SUGAR MILLING AND REFINING

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The milling sector of the industry employs upwards of 7 000 people in 14 sugar mills and at the companies’ administration offices in KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga. Six mills are owned by Illovo Sugar Ltd; four mills are owned by Tongaat Hulett Sugar Ltd; two mills by Tsb Sugar RSA Ltd; one mill by UCL Company Ltd and one mill by Ushukela Milling (Pty) Ltd. The two Tsb Sugar RSA Ltd mills are located in the Mpumalanga province and the remainder in the KwaZulu-Natal province. Three of the mills are known as “white end” mills and produce their own refined sugar. Part of the raw sugar produced by Tsb Sugar RSA Ltd is refined at the Malelane “white end”, and the balance is exported via the sugar terminal in Maputo. Raw sugar produced at the remaining mills is routed to Durban where it is either refined at the central refinery of Tongaat Hulett Sugar Ltd or stored at the South African Sugar Association Sugar Terminal prior to export. Diversity is the key factor in today’s highly integrated sugar milling operations and the mills produce a range of other products such as ethyl alcohol and furfural and its derivatives, although these activities are outside the industry partnership.

THE SOUTH AFRICAN SUGAR MILLERS’

The members of the South African Sugar Millers' Association Limited are: ILLOVO SUGAR LIMITED Illovo Sugar Ltd presently operates six sugar mills in South Africa, two of which have refineries and three which have packaging plants. It has three cane growing estates and produces a variety of downstream products. Tongaat Hulett Sugar (South Africa) Limited Tongaat Hulett Sugar (South Africa) Limited operates four sugar mills, a central refinery in Durban, various sugar estates and an animal feeds operation.

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The Association is administered by an Executive Director and staff who undertake these activities and who interact with the other organisations, particularly CANEGROWERS, on matters concerning the industry.

M I L L I N G

This Association represents the interests of all sugar millers and refiners in South Africa. The Association's objectives cover legislative measures affecting the industry, training, scientific and technological research, and compilation of statistics.

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ASSOCIATION LIMITED

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Tsb Sugar RSA Ltd operates two sugar mills, a refinery and packaging plant, sugar estates, cane and sugar transport, and an animal feed division. UCL COMPANY LIMITED UCL Company Ltd operates a sugar mill, a wattle extract factory and adhesive factory, a saw mill, a number of mixed farms, a payroll division, a trading division and an animal feed plant. USHUKELA MILLING (PTY) LIMITED The Gledhow Mill is owned by a black empowerment grouping which bought the mill from Illovo Sugar Limited in 2004.

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TSB SUGAR RSA LIMITED

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A S S O C I A T I O N

SOUTH AFRICAN SUGAR ASSOCIATION

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SASA provides a range of specialist services that enhance the profitability, global competitiveness and sustainability of the South African sugar industry.

SOUTH AFRICAN SUGAR ASSOCIATION DIVISIONAL STRUCTURE

NATIONAL MARKET

CANE TESTING SERVICE

INTERNATIONAL MARKETING

SHUKELA TRAINING CENTRE

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

INFORMATION SYSTEMS

EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

SASA INTERNAL SUPPORT SERVICES HUMAN RESOURCES FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION INFORMATION SYSTEMS & FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

SASA DIVISIONS SUPPORTING CORE INDUSTRY FUNCTIONS SOUTH AFRICAN SUGARCANE RESEARCH INSTITUTE (SASRI) The SA Sugarcane Research Institute is a leading agricultural research institute at the forefront of a thriving sugar industry. SASRI is world-renowned for its research into the development of new sugarcane varieties, and improved crop management and farming systems that enhance profitability. Effective delivery of new knowledge and technology make a significant contribution to the sustainability of the industry. Research at SASRI is clustered within three multi-disciplinary programmes: •

Variety Improvement seeks to breed and select high yielding, pest and disease resistant varieties that meet industry requirements, using both conventional breeding and modern molecular technologies. Improved efficiency in variety production is a key focus area.

• Crop Protection research is aimed at minimising the impact of weeds, pests and diseases on crop yields. Emphasis is placed on the integrated use of management practices and optimisation of cycle length and number is encouraged. •

The Resource Optimisation programme focuses on enabling production of high quality sugarcane through optimal choice of varieties, appropriate use of ripeners, herbicides and fertilisers for enhanced soil sustainability, as well as efficient use of water and improved harvesting and mechanisation systems. Development of appropriate technology transfer tools and practices is recognised as fundamental to improved adoption of research advice and sustainable sugarcane production.

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SOUTH AFRICAN SUGARCANE RESEARCH INSTITUTE

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SASA DIVISIONS SUPPORTING THE INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP

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SASA DIVISIONS SUPPORTING CORE INDUSTRY ACTIVITIES

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

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The Extension Service provides the essential link between SASRI researchers and farmers through consultation and feedback. Its primary role is to facilitate the adoption of technology and best management practices that encourage responsible and sustainable land use and deliver optimal productivity and profitability.

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A range of services is provided to the industry on a user-pays basis, including Specialist Advice on growers’ problems and the Fertiliser Advisory Service. Short courses in Sugarcane Agriculture at the junior and senior levels are held annually. SASRI also operates the only sugarcane quarantine facility in South Africa. CANE TESTING SERVICE (CTS) The Cane Testing Service provides a specialist service under contract to individual Mill Group Boards to determine the quality of individual grower cane deliveries to the mill for cane payment purposes. This analytical chemistry service assesses the recoverable value content in cane delivered to the mill by growers, providing a neutral and objective basis on which to calculate recoverable value payment by miller to grower. The CTS also provides a technical audit of the distribution between millers and growers ensuring fair and equitable division of proceeds. SHUKELA TRAINING CENTRE (STC) With the slogan 'Training today’s people for South Africa’s tomorrow', the Shukela Training Centre is the preferred provider of agricultural and engineering training to the sugar industry. The Agricultural Training Department focuses on the sugar industry and provides skills based training to all sugarcane farmers. The courses take place on the farms and the training has a high practical component and can be of benefit to new entrants into sugarcane growing, established commercial and small-scale growers and farm workers. Engineering training is carried out at the Shukela Training Centre based in Mount Edgecombe, where accommodation is available for the learners. The Centre proudly boasts training equipment that spans the progress of technology. Learners are trained in Electrical, Electronics, Fitting, Millwright, Refrigeration and Welding and all departments are accredited to qualify learners to artisan status either by Learnership or Apprenticeship. The Centre is accredited with the relevant Sectoral Education and Training Authorities and has the status of Institute of Occupational Excellence conferred by the AgriSETA. INFORMATION SYSTEMS – AUTOLAB Autolab develops and provides support services for computerised systems installed at 14 mills in South Africa and 1 mill outside of the country. The Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) is designed to manage growers’ estimates and allocations, and provides the source data for determining payments for sugar deliveries by growers. Autolab also develops and maintains the systems that track sugarcane through the milling process for the purpose of sampling and testing by the mills and Cane Testing Service (CTS) laboratories.

SASA DIVISIONS SUPPORTING THE INDUSTRY PARTNERSHIP

EXTERNAL AFFAIRS This Division performs in a range of areas that require specialist external communication skills. This covers an international and regional focus, publications, communications, renewable energy, environment, development and nutrition. The Division also administers the Sugar Industry Trust Fund for Education. External Affairs is responsible for the building of governmental relationships and the monitoring of local, regional and global trade policies affecting the South African sugar industry. This includes representation on the International Sugar Organisation (ISO) and liaison with relevant international organisations such as the World Trade Organisation, Food and Agriculture Organisation, International Fund for Agricultural Development and the Global Alliance for the Liberalisation of Trade in Sugar. The work programme addresses a wide range of key audiences through direct contact with private enterprise, government and non-governmental organisations. FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION The Division is responsible for the Treasury function, including obtaining all funds required for industrial requirements, for example carry-over stock and foreign exchange risk management. Finance and Administration provides monthly and annual financial reporting to the industry. Administrating and facilitating the partnership aspects of the industry, the Division is responsible for legislation governing the sugar industry (Sugar Act and Sugar Industry Agreement). This includes the division of proceeds between millers and growers, and the growers register. Umthombo Agricultural Finance, within the Finance and Administration Division, provides savings facilities and administers loans for small-scale growers in KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga provinces in South Africa.

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The marketing and logistics related to South Africa’s bulk raw sugar is performed by the International Marketing Division. The Division focuses on achieving maximum net proceeds at an acceptable level of risk. The raw sugar is sold to refineries in the Far East, Middle East, Africa, the Black Sea region and the United States, either directly or through international trade houses. Price risk is managed by hedging the value of raw sugar exports on the inter-continental NYBOT Sugar Exchange. Bulk raw sugar is exported through SASA’s Sugar Terminal in Durban and the STAM Terminal in Maputo, in which SASA is a shareholder.

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The Division is responsible for managing industry matters that affect the national market for sugar with respect to: marketing communication of sugar to consumers, administration of industrial rebates, researching drivers of sugar demand, administering aspects of SACU/ SADC sugar agreements and statistically analysing sugar supplies and demand.

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FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION In addition to the functions listed under SASA divisions supporting core industry functions, the Finance and Administration Division provides financial accounting, taxation, corporate governance, treasury and administration services to SASA. INFORMATION SYSTEMS & FACILITIES MANAGEMENT The Information Systems Department provides technical support to computer users in the SASA Divisions. The department is responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of all computer network services. These services include the storage of network user data, application hosting for various divisions and external clients, the provision of all electronic communications such as e-mail, internet and intranet and the management of all wide area and dial-up communication links. The weekly processing of the Industrial Systems that determine cane payment amounts for growers who have delivered sugarcane to the mills is also performed by the department. Through Autolab, the division provides expert support and development of the Sugar Industry Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) utilised by all sugar mills within South Africa. The division also manages the various aspects of service delivery at SASA sites particularly in respect of the provision of centralised hard and soft services.

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HUMAN RESOURCES As a provider of specialist services, SASA's performance and service levels are highly reliant upon the performance and service of SASA's employees. The diversity of the skills SASA employs, range from high-level specialists to unionised industrial and agricultural labour, and the wide geographical spread of our operations, makes the effective management of people, their knowledge and their performance particularly important. In support of this need, the Human Resources division provides a comprehensive range of services to managers and employees in SASA, all of which aim to resource the organisation with highly competent and effective people who are committed to serving the best interests of the South African sugar industry.

FACTS & FIGURES 2 0 0 8 / 2 0 0 9

TOTAL CANE/SUGAR PRODUCTION TOTAL SUGAR PRODUCED : 1994/1995 to 2007/2008

2 500 000

500 000

2 273 499

2 226 853

2 500 504

2 226 869

2 412 031

2 754 619

2 403 243

2 721 562

2 524 660

2 638 156

2 403 630

1 000 000

2 259 696

1 500 000 1 658 935

TONS

2 000 000

1 657 835

F A C T S

A N D

F I G U R E S

3 000 000

0 94/95 95/96 96/97 97/98 98/99 99/00 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 SEASON

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TOTAL CANE/SUGAR PRODUCTION : 1994/1995 to 2007/2008

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Cane crushed

Sugar produced National Market

International Market

1994/1995

15 683 277

1 310 328

347 507

1995/1996

16 713 649

1 283 282

375 653

1996/1997

20 950 894

1 264 066

995 630

1997/1998

22 154 775

1 310 352

1 093 278

1998/1999

22 930 324

1 285 001

1 353 155

1999/2000

21 223 098

1 194 763

1 329 897

2000/2001

23 876 162

1 231 442

1 490 120

2001/2002

21 156 537

1 239 651

1 163 592

2002/2003

23 012 554

1 278 720

1 475 899

2003/2004

20 418 933

1 356 400

1 055 631

2004/2005

19 094 760

1 210 416

1 016 453

2005/2006

21 052 266

1 261 808

1 238 696

2006/2007

20 278 603

1 340 524

886 329

2007/2008

19 723 916

1 399 657

873 842

CROP DATA TOTAL CROP AREA : 1993/1994 to 2007/2008

E S

265 250

94/95

95/96

00/01

04/05

05/06

06/07 07/08

*estimate­

CROP DATA: 1994/1995 to 2007/2008 Areas Yields

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Sucrose % Cane

Tons cane to 1 ton sugar

Tons cane crushed

Tons sugar made

Yields per hectare of harvested cane

Rainfall June to May (mm)

1994/1995

12,54

9,40

15 683 277

1 667 920

55,18

900

1995/1996

11,87

10,02

16 713 649

1 667 315

61,19

1221

1996/1997

12,60

9,23

20 950 894

2 269 195

69,92

976

1997/1998

12,63

9,18

22 154 775

2 412 914

74,70

1101

1998/1999

13,36

8,67

22 930 324

2 646 172

72,48

801

1999/2000

13,77

8,38

21 223 098

2 531 805

67,74

1306

2000/2001

13,08

8,77

23 876 162

2 729 219

73,95

894

2001/2002

13,11

8,83

21 156 537

2 395 566

64,96

1001

2002/2003

13,71

8,33

23 012 554

2 762 885

71,64

850

2003/2004

13,70

8,44

20 418 933

2 419 287

62,64

792

2004/2005

13,52

8,54

19 094 760

2 234 898

60,42

898

2005/2006

13,74

8,40

21 052 266

2 507 203

66,02

921

2006/2007

12,92

9,07

20 278 603

2 235 287

66,36

982

2007/2008

13,47

8,64

19 723 916

2 281 765

64,79

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S O U T H A F R I C A N S U G A R I N DF U A S C TT RS Y ADNI R D E CF TI O G R U YR

422 814 319 359

423 960

419 463 305 600

03/04

318 856

02/03

424 907

426 861

430 106

431 771 01/02

316 010

99/00

325 956

98/99

321 234

97/98

313 294

96/97

316 357

296 576

280

273 122

295

284 237

Hectares (‘000)

310

269 677

325

299 655

Hectares harvested for milling

340

322 858

370

355

325 704

428 822

421 637

416 820

385

421 038

411 297

400

380 553

415

394 843

445

430

392 476

Hectares under sugarcane

SUGARCANE CRUSHED BY MILLS (TONS)

2002/03

2003/04

2004/05

2005/06

2006/07

2007/08

Malelane

1 761 160

1 853 104

1 837 756

1 551 272

1 646 458

1 526 932

1 673 411

Komati

1 907 089

2 056 787

2 137 724

1 978 632

2 090 988

2 102 157

2 278 334

Pongola

1 355 654

1 409 293

1 426 568

1 370 009

1 419 079

1 379 011

1 307 361

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REGION

Total Northern Irrigated

5 023 903

5 319 184

5 402 048

4 899 913

5 156 525

5 008 100

5 259 106

Umfolozi

1 172 173

1 262 294

1 087 606

1 072 527

1 197 851

1 113 986

1 033 108

Entumeni

405 585

409 394

361 203

-

-

-

-

Felixton

2 018 564

2 175 081

1 894 726

2 010 329

2 287 595

2 139 239

1 843 728

Amatikulu

1 624 590

1 672 146

1 160 625

1 690 400

1 613 631

1 560 434

1 415 976

Total Zululand

5 220 912

5 518 915

4 504 160

4 773 256

5 099 077

4 813 659

4 292 812

Darnall

1 211 236

1 373 582

1 097 397

1 261 744

1 353 382

1 224 859

1 075 048

Gledhow (KwaDukuza)

1 150 711

1 383 225

1 175 622

1 094 491

1 184 415

1 196 391

1 181 104

Maidstone

1 648 747

1 899 922

1 389 215

1 393 182

1 309 502

1 346 956

1 170 597

Total North Coast

4 010 694

4 656 729

3 662 234

3 749 417

3 847 299

3 768 206

3 426 749

Eston

1 255 166

1 418 127

1 307 274

1 074 963

1 306 057

1 267 501

1 409 281

Noodsberg

1 565 577

1 673 982

1 614 762

1 064 756

1 512 304

1 449 050

1 450 009

F I G U R E S

2001/02

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NORTHERN IRRIGATED

ZULULAND

NORTH COAST

MIDLANDS

Union

744 868

804 492

777 307

629 994

792 473

722 445

670 076

3 565 610

3 896 601

3 699 343

2 769 713

3 610 834

3 438 996

3 529 366

Sezela

2 187 376

2 321 366

2 014 283

1 946 179

2 164 689

2 088 586

2 071 265

Umzimkulu

1 148 041

1 299 759

1 136 865

956 282

1 173 842

1 161 056

1 144 618

Total South Coast

3 335 417

3 621 125

3 151 148

2 902 461

3 338 531

3 249 642

3 215 883

21 156 537

23 012 554

20 418 933

19 094 760

21 052 266

20 278 603

19 723 916

Total Midlands SOUTH COAST

TOTAL

SA SUGAR SUPPLIES INTO SACU MARKET SA SUGAR SALES/TONS : 1994/1995 TO 2007/2008

1200 42,4%

57,6%

direct & CONTRACT sales 784 293 tons

F A C T S

1 362 555

1 345 570

1 327 793

1 267 979

1 101 602

1 412 795

1 227 215

1 311 096

1 230 045

1 220 380

1 334 589

1 278 015

600

1 235 220

800

1 343 611

1000

A N D

industrial sales 578 263 tons

1400

F I G U R E S

Sales 2007/2008

400

200

0 94/95 95/96 96/97 97/98 98/99 99/00 00/01 01/02 02/03 03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08

Season

White sugar (tons)

Brown sugar

Direct sales

(tons)

%

(tons)

Industrial sales

%

(tons)

Per capita consumption (kg)

1995/1996

1 129 989

148 026

915 521

71,6

362 494

28,4

32,4

1996/1997

1 182 745

160 866

920 896

68,5

422 715

31,5

32,8

1997/1998

1 176 660

157 929

905 592

67,9

428 997

32,1

32,8

1998/1999

1 072 230

148 150

808 884

66,3

411 496

33,7

32,0

1999/2000

1 069 494

160 551

811 591

66,0

418 454

34,0

31,2

2000/2001

1 140 308

170 788

879 529

67,1

431 567

32,9

31,1

2001/2002

1 066 168

161 047

819 273

66,8

407 942

33,2

31,9

2002/2003

1 218 766

194 029

924 146

65,4

488 649

34,6

31,9

2003/2004

926 951

174 651

670 214

60,4

431 388

39,1

31,9

2004/2005

1 073 867

194 112

785 538

61,9

482 441

38,0

32,3

2005/2006

1 112 153

215 640

810 017

61,0

517 776

39,0

32,4

2006/2007

1 121 273

224 297

771 216

57,3

574 354

42,7

33,6

2007/2008

1 121 263

241 292

784 293

57,6

578 263

42,4

34,9

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SA SUGAR SALES/TONS: 1995/1996 to 2007/2008

RECOVERABLE VALUE AND CANE PRICES RECOVERABLE VALUE (RV) AND CANE PRICES 2007/2008

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R1 701,90

R208,82

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per ton

RV

Cane

RECOVERABLE VALUE AND CANE PRICES 1996/97 TO 2007/2008 Season

Recoverable Value*

Cane

1996/1997

951,07

108,91

1997/1998

1 036,19

117,58

1998/1999

1 046,62

125,85

1999/2000

971,09

121,36

2000/2001

1 105,00

130,50

2001/2002

1 352,14

160,23

2002/2003

1 368,79

171,78

2003/2004

1 357,01

169,08

2004/2005

1 297,19

159,55

2005/2006

1 389,80

173,59

2006/2007

1 701,86

198,78

2007/2008

1 701,90

208,82

* From 2000/2001 payments to growers are on a recoverable value basis (previously on a sucrose basis). Figures reflected for prior seasons are estimates based on the new payment system.

NB: For the 1996/1997 – 1997/1998 seasons prices have been averaged for the A and B pools.

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Kwa-Shukela, 170 Flanders Drive, Mount Edgecombe 4300 PO Box 700, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7000 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. (031) 508 7199 EXECUTIVE Executive Director: MK Trikam 170 Flanders Drive, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 031) 508 7003 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7197 e-mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected]

DIVISIONS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SUGAR ASSOCIATION SOUTH AFRICAN SUGARCANE RESEARCH INSTITUTE Director: CD Dettman Kwa-Shukela, 170 Flanders Drive, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Private Bag X02, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7400 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7597 e-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Direct Contact Details If the area of operation you are looking for is not listed, phone (031) 508 7400. E-mail Tel Fax (031) (031) Director. . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] 508 7401 508 7599 Liaison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected]

508 7404

508 7599

Extension. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected]

508 7492

508 7595

Diagnostic and Analytical Services . . . . . . . . . [email protected]

508 7528

508 7597

Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected]

508 7514

508 7597

Human Resources. . . . . . [email protected]

508 7505

508 7596

E-mail

082 6540056

[email protected]

082 6550357

[email protected]

Cane Growers North Coast F Phewa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 031 508 7494

082 6550358

[email protected]

Lower South Coast GF Buchanan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 039 682 1822

082 6533151

[email protected]

South Coast D McElligott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 039 975 1377

083 6555012

[email protected]

Midlands South E Bruggemann . . . . . . . . . . . . . 031 781 1718

082 6543536

[email protected]

Midlands North P Brenchley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 033 503 1818

082 6543549

[email protected]

Durban North Coast O de Haas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 032 947 1410

082 6543546

[email protected]

Cane Growers South Coast WA Gillespie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 031 302 2865

082 6550356

[email protected]

North Coast RA Stranack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 032 947 1410

082 6533144

[email protected]

Zululand South G Lagerwall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 035 337 1593

082 6533147

[email protected]

Zululand Central PJ Fourie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 035 474 2629

083 3209099

[email protected]

Cane Growers Zululand South TR Masondo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 035 474 5217

082 6533148

[email protected]

Cane Growers Zululand North JL Neen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 035 474 5217

082 6533149

[email protected]

Zululand North RR Fortmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 035 772 5871

082 6533150

[email protected]

Umfolozi M Adendorff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 035 550 0097

083 6555011

[email protected]

Cane Growers Malelane SJ Mkwanazi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 013 790 0230 BSZ Bhengu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 013 790 0230

082 6550387 082 6543547

[email protected] [email protected]

Extension Resource Manager G Maher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 031 508 7492 Cane Growers MJ Eweg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 031 508 7491



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CANE TESTING SERVICE (CTS) General Manager: S Naidoo 170 Flanders Drive, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7141 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7196 e-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Regional Managers: North: Felixton, Komati, Malelane, Pongola, Umfolozi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O Kusche . . (034) 413 1551 South: Eston, KwaDukuza, Maidstone, Amatikulu, Darnall, Noodsberg, Sezela, Umzimkulu . . . . . . . . . . K Naidoo . . (031) 508 7142 Cane Testing Service Managers: Amatikulu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P Naidoo . . . . . . . . . . . . (035) 331 1235 Darnall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . P Naidoo . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 486 1391 Eston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C Govender . . . . . . . . . . (031) 781 1092 Felixton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . T McPherson . . . . . . . . . . (035) 791 5020 Komati . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JB Mhlongo . . . . . . . . . . (013) 723 4152 KwaDukuza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Maharaj . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 551 3031 Maidstone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Maharaj . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 944 6637 Malelane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BG Mmonwa . . . . . . . . . (013) 791 1224 Noodsberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . V Mohabir . . . . . . . . . . . (033) 501 1479 Pongola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . J Dheopursad . . . . . . . . . (034) 413 1359 Sezela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S Naidoo . . . . . . . . . . . . (039) 975 1106 Umfolozi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FAM Mathaba . . . . . . . . . (035) 550 0531 Umzimkulu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S Naidoo . . . . . . . . . . . . (0396) 821 333 SHUKELA TRAINING CENTRE PO Box 23, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7700 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 086 643 0291 e-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] General Manager: TJ Bamber . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7701 Agricultural Training Manager: B Ndiweni . . (031) 508 7736 Engineering Training Manager: E Maharaj . . (031) 508 7719 NATIONAL MARKET National Market Manager: M Cutts 170 Flanders Drive, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7102 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7190 e-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] INTERNATIONAL MARKETING International Marketing Director: M Cutts 170 Flanders Drive, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7101 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7189 e-mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected]

Tour Centre Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 365 8153 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 365 8151 e-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION Finance and Administration Director: DP Rossler 170 Flanders Drive, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7050 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7194 e-mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] EXTERNAL AFFAIRS External Affairs Director: JM van der Merwe 170 Flanders Drive, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7025 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7191 e-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . j [email protected] INFORMATION SYSTEMS & FACILITIES MANAGEMENT General Manager – Information Systems & Facilities Management: AW Coreejes 170 Flanders Drive, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7048/7178 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7194/7170 e-mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] HUMAN RESOURCES Human Resources Executive: PJ Milner-Smyth 170 Flanders Drive, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 031) 508 7011 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7193 e-mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected]

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SA SUGAR TERMINAL Operations Manager: JD Harmse 25 Leuchars Road, Durban 4001 PO Box 61104, Bishopsgate 4008 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 365 8100 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 301 1313 e-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected]

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Export Relationship Manager: Robin Bell SASA United Kingdom Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +44 1264 335 128 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . +44 1264 351 353 e-mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected]

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Trading Desk: Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7104

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Kwa-Shukela, 170 Flanders Drive, Mount Edgecombe 4300 PO Box 888, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7200 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7201 e-mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.sacanegrowers.co.za Executive Director: DB Wayne; Director Regional Services: K Hurly; Director Industrial Affairs: AT Wynne; Director Economic Services: R Armitage; Corporate Affairs Director: K Mlotshwa LOCAL GROWER COUNCIL SECRETARIES Amatikulu: W Eggers, PO Box 413, Gingindlovu 3800 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (035) 337 1349 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (035) 337 1481 Darnall: A Jagessur, PO Box 79, Stanger 4450 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 486 1519 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 486 1519 Eston: J Gurney, PO Box 112, Eston 3740 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 781 2001 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 781 2003 Felixton: N Kok, PO Box 1338, Empangeni 3880 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (035) 772 3110 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (035) 772 5477 Gledhow: Y Lewis, PO Box 55, Stanger 4450 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 437 4515 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 551 5568 Maidstone: D Ramdial, PO Box 770, Umhlali 4390 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 944 2783 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 944 2787 Mpumalanga: K Trumpelmann, PO Box 1379, Malelane 1320 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (013) 790 0230 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (013) 790 0231 Noodsberg: I Lutge, PO Box 487, Wartburg 3233 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (033) 503 1818 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (033) 503 1822 Pongola: D Bosman, PO Box 200, Pongola 3170 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (034) 413 1215 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (034) 413 1299

Sezela: W Gillham, PO Box 224, Sezela 4215 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (039) 975 2078 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (039) 975 2079

Union: SP Love, PO Box 1, Dalton 3236 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (033) 501 1600 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (033) 501 1187 REGIONAL MANAGERS Northern Irrigated: B Sugden . . . . . . . . . . . (013) 790 0305 North Coast: A Church . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 947 0176 South Coast: RM Thomson . . . . . . . . . . . . . (039) 682 5122 Zululand: G Groom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (035) 772 3111 Midlands: B Pearce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (033) 503 1820 Tugela: B Nothard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (035) 337 1135

GROCANE FIRE INSURANCE CO-OP 1998 LIMITED 170 Flanders Drive, Mount Edgecombe 4302 PO Box 557, Mount Edgecombe 4302 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7161 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7169 Chairman: MP Finch; Vice-Chairman: HF Eggers; Administration Manager: DD Fregona

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Umzimkulu: E Berry, PO Box 552, Port Shepstone 4240 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (039) 682 5122 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (039) 682 5420

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Umfolozi: J Viljoen, PO Box 13069, Monzi 3935 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (035) 550 0237 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (035) 550 2489

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Kwa-Shukela, 170 Flanders Drive, Mount Edgecombe 4300 PO Box 1000, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(031) 508 7300 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7310 e-mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Executive Director: DW Hardy; Company Secretary: KL Lansdell

SUGAR MILLING COMPANIES ILLOVO SUGAR LIMITED Head Office: Illovo Sugar Park, 1 Montgomery Drive, Mount Edgecombe, KwaZulu-Natal PO Box 194, Durban 4000 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 4300 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 4499 Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.illovosugar.com Chairman: RA Williams; Managing Director: DG MacLeod; Operations Director: GJ Clark; Group Human Resources: NM Hawley; New Projects Director: JT Russell; Technical Director: BM Stuart; Financial Director: K Zarnack; Group Secretary: GD Knox GROUP OPERATIONS Medical: Dr PH Canter; Technical Services: D Coates; Marketing: R J de Allende; Finance: DE Howells; Corporate Services: X Magojo; New Projects: JM Moult; Internal Audit: AE Oosthuizen; Information Technology: DA Schaller; Agriculture: GS Trott SA OPERATIONS Illovo Sugar Park, 1 Montgomery Drive, Mount Edgecombe, KwaZulu-Natal PO Box 194, Durban 4000 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 4300 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 4530 General Manager: LW Riddle; Marketing: HR Hackmann; Human Resources: S Hlela; Finance/Industry Affairs: NT Moor; Refined Sugar Production: GF Mann; Raw Sugar Production: S Rau

NOODSBERG MILL Private Bag 501, Dalton 3236 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (033) 502 9500 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (033) 501 1109 Operations Manager: E Lucht; Factory Manager: M Pousson; Administration Manager: T Spencer; Cane Procurement Manager: J De Lange; Human Resources Manager: E Monaheng ESTON MILL Private Bag 2, Eston 3740 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 781 1092 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 781 1316 Operations Manager: V Pillay; Administration Manager: P Naidoo; Agricultural Manager: R Thompson; Human Resources Manager: E Sibiya SEZELA MILL PO Sezela 4215 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (039) 975 8000 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (039) 975 8299 Operations Manager: SS Munsamy; Factory Manager: J Janse van Rensburg; Factory Manager (Downstream products): BG Robson; Administration Manager: DJ Dale; Human Resources Manager: H Wortmann UMZIMKULU MILL PO Box 59, Port Shepstone 4240 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (039) 682 4202 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (039) 682 4126 Operations Manager: L Bachan; Administration Manager: WA Bennett; Agricultural Manager: P Albers; Human Resources Manager: V Nene

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(Note: As previously advised during April 2008, Illovo has taken back ownership of the Umfolozi sugar mill and will be operating it during the current 2008/09 sugar season. Discussions regarding future long-term ownership arrangements are continuing.)

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UMFOLOZI MILL Private Bag X12, Mtubatuba 3935 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (035) 550 0031 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (035) 550 1145 Factory Manager: B Govender; Administration Manager: MA Walsh; Human Resources Manager: S Botes

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PONGOLA MILL PO Box 23, Pongola 3170 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (034) 413 8100 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (034) 413 8167 Operations Manager: BV Holmes; Factory Manager: H Zungu; Administration Manager: J Delport; Cane Procurement Manager: BN Rapson; Human Resources Manager: D Main

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TONGAAT HULETT SUGAR (SOUTH AFRICA) LIMITED Corporate Office: Private Bag 3, Glenashley 4022 Amanzimnyama Hill Road, Tongaat, 4399 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 439 4300 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 439 4392 Managing Director: MN Mohale; Executive Director: PD McKerchar; Executive Director - Technology Management: DM Meadows; Executive Director - Human Resources: JD Bhana; Business Services Manager: LJ Munro; Commercial Manager: MR Fell; Industry Affairs Manager: TB Ngeleza

TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING GROUP

Private Bag 3, Glenashley 4022 No.1 Amanzimnyama Hill Road, Tongaat, 4399 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 439 4455 / 439 4342 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 439 4396 Projects Manager: Ricky Govender; New Technology Group Leader: C Jensen; Technology Group Leader: PM Schorn; Engineering Group Leader: AD Ferguson

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PO Box 1501, Durban 4000 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 460 0111 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 460 0380 Executive Director - Refinery: Rammy Govender; Production Manager: M Moodley; Technical Services Manager: C Lewis; HR Manager: T Campbell; Business Services Manager: A Gobind; Technical Manager: N Padayachee

TONGAAT HULETT SUGAR - MARKETING, SALES AND DISTRIBUTION PO Box 1501, Durban 4000 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 460 0111 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 460 0366 / 460 0383 General Manager - Marketing: PM Dickinson; Marketing Manager: A Randeria; Trade Marketing Manager: R Zwane; Manager - Industrial Marketing/Cape Sweeteners: GB Armstrong; Product Development Manager: L Thorpe; Senior Brand Manager: W Beuster; HR Manager: Z Mohamed; Warehousing and Distribution Manager: SL Paul

VOERMOL FEEDS (PTY) LTD

P O Box 13, Maidstone 4380 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 439 5599 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 944 6636 Managing Director: PT Strydom; Technical Manager: S Breytenbach; Business Services Manager: G Lovell

AGRICULTURE OPERATIONS (SA)

FELIXTON MILL Private Bag X02, Felixton 3875 Telephone ………..……………………………………(035) 791 5000 Fax ………..……………………………………………(035) 791 1864 Engineering Manager: JP de Jager; Production Manager: P Masinga; Cane Supply and Transport Manager: M Sagadevan SOUTHERN REGION (Darnall/Maidstone) PO Box 5, Maidstone 4380 Telephone ………..……………………………………(032) 439 5511 Fax ………..……………………………………………(032) 944 2818 Regional Operations Manager: R Scott; Business Services Manager: G Maphumalo; Regional HR Manager: M Tucker; Cane Procurement - Commercial: D Armstrong; Cane Procurement - Small Scale Growers: W Ntshangase DARNALL MILL PO Box 4480 Telephone ………..……………………………………(032) 439 9111 Fax ………..……………………………………………(032) 486 1635 Factory Manager: N Simmonds; Production Manager: WJ Morris; Supply Chain Manager: J van Niekerk MAIDSTONE MILL PO Box 5, Maidstone 4380 Telephone ………..……………………………………(032) 439 5511 Fax ………..……………………………………………(032) 944 2818 Factory Manager: C Soji; Engineering Manager: J Rawlinson; Production Manager: N Rajoo; Supply Chain Manager: G Corson

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AMATIKULU MILL Private Bag Amatikulu 3801 Telephone ………..……………………………………(035) 331 9000 Fax ………..……………………………………………(035) 331 1377 Engineering Manager: A Balouza; Production Manager: M Ninela; Cane Supply and Transport Manager: L Viljoen

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NORTHERN REGION (Amatikulu/Felixton) Private Bag X02, Felixton 3875 Telephone ………..……………………………………(035) 791 5000 Fax ………..……………………………………………(035) 791 1864 Regional Operations Manager: D van den Berg; Business Services Manager: D Maharaj; Regional HR Manager: B Lane; Cane Procurement - Commercial: D Beath; Cane Procurement - Small Scale Growers: W Ntshangase

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Off Watson Highway, Tongaat Estate, 4399 Private Bag X50, Tongaat, 4400 Telephone ………..……………………………………(032) 438 3500 Fax ………..……………………………………………(032) 438 3522 General Manager: P Russell; Business Services Manager: MC Govender; HR Manager: A Nkabane

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Head Office: PO Box 47, Malelane 1320 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (013) 791 1000 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (013) 790 0769 e-mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.tsbsugar.com Managing Director: H Snyman; Financial Director: IG van der Walt; General Manager Molatek Animal Feed: GS du Plessis; Director of Cane and Sugar Production: D van Rooy; General Manager Group Services: E Terblanche; General Manager Sugar Marketing: P Harland; General Manager Corporate Communications: V Khoza General Manager Cane Supply: MJ Slabbert Komati Mill PO Box 69, Komatipoort 1340 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (013) 723 4860 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (013) 723 4444 General Manager: G Rolfe; Operations Manager: L Govender Malelane Mill PO Box 47, Malelane 1320 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (013) 791 1015 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (013) 790 0264 General Manager: G Rolfe; Operations Manager: A Williamson

Grower Affairs

PO Box 47, Malelane 1340 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (013) 791 1222 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (013) 791 1133 General Manager Cane Supply: MJ Slabbert

Durban Office

PO Box 800, Mount Edgecombe 4300 170 Flanders Drive, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Manager Sugar Industry Affairs: BJ Rogers Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7320 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7329 Export Manager: C Smit Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7323 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7329

Tsb - Marketing, Sales and Distribution

Quality Sugars PO Box 70741, Bryanston 2021 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (011) 463 7688 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (011) 463 7624 General Manager: PC Harland

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39 Head Office: PO Box 1, Dalton 3236 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (033) 501 1600 Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (033) 501 1187 Chairman: CE Klipp; General Manager: HW Rencken; Assistant General Manager Agri Services: FM Eggers; Assistant General Manager Manufacturing: PH von Fintel; Production Manager: P Waldron; Engineering Manager: L van der Westhuizen; Assistant General Manager Marketing: M van der Merwe; Assistant General Manager Subsidiaries: S Casey; Human Resources Manager: A de Vries; Financial Manager: H Tredoux

USHUKELA MILLING (PTY) LIMITED

GLEDHOW MILL PO Box 55, Stanger 4450 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ( 032) 437 4400 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 551 5568 Directors: MP Sokhela and J Sokhela

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Amatikulu: EHW Eggers, PO Box 413, Gingindlovu 3800 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (035) 337 1349 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (035) 337 1481 Darnall: B Blake, PO Box 54, Darnall 4480 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 439 9111 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 486 1635 Illovo/Eston: J Gurney, PO Box 112, Eston 3740 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 781 1718 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 781 1614 Felixton: S Schwartz, PO Box 1338, Empangeni 3880 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (035) 772 3110 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (035) 772 5477 Gledhow: Y Lewis, PO Box 55, Kwa-Dukuza 4450 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 437 4515 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 551 5568 Noodsberg: I Lutge, PO Box 487, Wartburg 3233 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (033) 503 1818 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (033) 503 1822 Komati: E van der Merwe, PO Box 98, Komatipoort 1340 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (013) 723 4305 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (013) 723 4232 Maidstone: D Ramdial, Maidstone Mill, PO Box 770, Umhlali 4390 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 944 2783 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 944 2787 Malelane: EA Stark, PO Box 1379, Malelane 1320 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (013) 790 1083 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (013) 790 0231 Pongola: D Bosman, PO Box 200, Pongola 3170 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (034) 413 1215 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (034) 413 1299 Sezela: W Gillham, PO Box 224, Sezela 4215 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (039) 975 2078 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (039) 975 2078 Umfolozi: J Viljoen, PO Box 179, Mtubatuba 3935 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (035) 550 0237 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (035) 550 2489 Umzimkulu: E Redmile, PO Box 552, Port Shepstone 4240 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (039) 682 5121 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (039) 682 3658 UCL Company: SP Love, UCL Company Ltd MGB, PO Box 1, Dalton 3236 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (033) 501 1600 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (033) 501 1187

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B O A R D S

MILL GROUP BOARDS

SOUTH AFRICAN SUGAR TECHNOLOGISTS’ ASSOCIATION c/o SA Sugarcane Research Institute, Private Bag X02, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7543 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7420 e-mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.sasta.co.za President: PM Schorn; Vice-President: DL Sweby SOUTH AFRICAN SUGAR INDUSTRY AGRONOMISTS’ ASSOCIATION SA Sugarcane Research Institute, Private Bag X02, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (032) 947 1410 e-mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Chairman: RA Stranack

LABOUR ORGANISATIONS SUGAR MANUFACTURING AND REFINING EMPLOYERS’ ASSOCIATION Kwa-Shukela, 170 Flanders Drive, Mount Edgecombe, 4300 PO Box 1000, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7300 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7310 Secretaries: South African Sugar Millers’ Association Limited NATIONAL BARGAINING COUNCIL FOR THE SUGAR MANUFACTURING AND REFINING INDUSTRY PO Box 472, Mount Edgecombe 4300 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7331/2 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 508 7339 Chairman: M Makamu; Vice-Chairman: S Hlela; Secretary: Y Motala

INKEZO LAND COMPANY Westwing Ground Floor, 2 Flanders Drive, Mount Edgecombe, 4300 PO Box 1730, Country Club, 4301 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 539 4514 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 539 5943 e-mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Website . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.inkezo.co.za Chief Executive Officer: T Mbatha

& L A B O U R

SUGAR MILLING RESEARCH INSTITUTE c/o University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041 Telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 273 1300 Fax. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (031) 273 1302 e-mail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [email protected] Chief Executive Officer: J Dewar; Administration and Human Relations Manager: ML Oosthuizen; Head Analytical Services: R Simpson; Head Chemical Research: SN Walford; Head Process Engineering: SB Davis

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S U G A R

HIGHLIGHTS

S O U T H   A F R I C A N

2 0 0 8 / 2 0 0 9

2 0 0 7 / 2 0 0 8

1861 Indentured workers from India arrive 1865 First black owned steam mill at American Board of Missions station at Amanzimtoti 1896 Locusts destroy 40% of sugarcane crop 1900 Sugar output reaches 16 000 tons per annum with 30 mills in operation and 2 600 hectares under sugarcane

1964

Bilateral agreement with Britain terminated and 165 000 tons Commonwealth Preference transferred to Swaziland with agreement on marketing

1965 Bulk Sugar Terminal erected with storage capacity of 180 000 tons

Sugar Industry Trust Fund for Education launched

1968 First N variety of cane – bred and selected in Natal – released by SASEX

1910 Natal Sugar Association formed

1970 Molasses mixing plant installed at Bulk Sugar Terminal

1916 Agricultural News and Sugar Planters Gazette launched (Sugar Journal)

1973 SASA launches Small Growers' Financial Aid Fund with grant of R5 million

1920 Natal Sugar Millers’ Association founded

1974 Industrial Training Centre opened at Mt Edgecombe

1925 Experiment Station (SASEX) established 1927 South African Cane Growers' Association formed 1936 Sugar Act promulgated and first Sugar Industry Agreement published 1937 South Africa becomes foundation member of the first International Sugar Agreement with quota of 209 000 tons 1939 Annual production reaches 475 000 tons with 23 factories operating and 145 000 hectares under cane 1945 NCo310 released by SASEX 1949 Sugar Milling Research Institute (SMRI) established

The formation of Grocane Fire Insurance Co-operative Limited by private growers

1975 Domestic consumption reaches one million tons 1978 N12 released 1981 Bulk Sugar Facility established in Gauteng for domestic market

New markets developed in Korea

1983 World Sugar Research Organisation (WSRO) meets in Durban

Severe drought cuts production by 750 000 tons

1984 Price Stabilisation Fund borrowings reach R327 million

Cane transport scheme transfers cost responsibility to growers



Quarantine glasshouse moved from Botanic Gardens to Mt Edgecombe

1950 First bulk shipment of 5 750 tons of raw sugar

1985 A and B pool systems introduced

1953 South Africa joins post-war International Sugar Agreement (ISA)



1954 SASEX Extension service begins 1955 NCo376 released by SASEX

1986 Political sanctions lead to loss of Canadian and USA markets

1961



South Africa leaves British Commonwealth but negotiates new bilateral agreement to supply Britain 150 000 tons annually

Record sugar production of 2,370 million tons

1987 Small-scale grower production exceeds 1,5 million tons (worth R51m) Floods disrupt mills and cane areas in KwaZulu-Natal

H I S T O R I C A L

1853 First shipment of KwaZulu-Natal sugar to the Cape

1962 New markets developed in Canada and Japan

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1848 Edmund Morewood plants the first sugarcane on the KwaZulu-Natal North Coast

H I G H L I G H T S

HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS

1988 N21 released – first eldana resistant variety

H I S T O R I C A L

H I G H L I G H T S

1989 R1 m project announced to expand industry production by 300 000 tons 1990 Industry proceeds exceed R2 billion for one season

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ISO Council held in Durban in May 2002

2003 Record crop of 2 763 000 tons of sugar

1991 USA quota restored at 2,3% equating to 26 000 tons per annum

2004 As part of its rationalisation to cut costs Tongaat Hulett Sugar Ltd's Entumeni Mill is closed

1992 First year of four-year drought reduces production to 1,5m tons



Industrial Training Centre (ITC) changes name to Shukela Training Centre (STC)





Illovo Sugar Ltd sells Gledhow Mill making it the first sale of a sugar mill to a black empowerment group



South African Sugar Experiment Station (SASEX) changes name to South African Sugarcane Research Institute (SASRI)



Inkezo Land Company established

Small Grower Development Trust launched

1993 Drought in 1993/94 season reduces production to 1,171 million tons

100 000 tons of sugar imported



Loans by Financial Aid Fund (Umthombo Agricultural Finance) exceed R100 million



R6,7 million IDT/Industry Work Creation Programme launched



N24 released



Transvaal Sugar Limited’s new mill near Komatipoort starts crushing

1994 Introduction of phased deregulation programme

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2002 SA chairs the International Sugar Organisation (ISO) for the first time

Sugar Industry Central Board disbanded

1995 Drought restricts production to 1,67m tons in 1995/96

R12 million Siyakha programme launched by President Mandela

1996 Industry recovers from drought. Production increases to 2,2m tons

Illovo Sugar Ltd’s Eston Mill starts crushing

1997

Illovo Sugar Ltd consolidates its leading position in southern Africa with the acquisition of Lonrho’s sugar division for R1,62 billion.

1998 Pools system of sucrose payments ends 1999 Record crop in 1998/99 at 2,646 million tons of sugar

Sugar Association moves with Growers and Millers to Mount Edgecombe

2000 Crop for 1999/2000 exceeds 2,53m tons at record 8,38 tons cane per ton sugar

Record summer rainfall in many regions

2001 Record crop in 2000/2001 at 2,729 million tons of sugar

Launch of Umthombo Agricultural Finance (formerly Financial Aid Fund)

2005 Illovo Sugar Ltd sells Umfolozi Mill to the black empowerment group – Umvoti Transport Ltd

SASA purchases 25% share in Maputo Sugar Terminal

2006 Highest world sugar price in twenty-five years

Transvaal Sugar Limited changes name to Tsb Sugar RSA Limited



Opening of STAM Terminal in Maputo in which SASA is a shareholder



Sugar Journal turns 90 years old and publishes commemorative edition

2007

The 2006/07 season dips to the lowest level in 10 years with a production of 2,226 million tons of sugar The ISSCT is held in South Africa for the first time in 33 years