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06th May 2026

NCT’S RECOVERY: Bell water tankers inform NCT’s new fire station capacity

Throughout history, fires have caused widespread devastation and loss. In late September 2023, the NCT Forestry Co-operative Limited (NCT) mill in Richards Bay experienced this firsthand when strong winds, low humidity, and high temperatures combined to create ideal conditions for a fire that raged for more than ten days.

17th March 2025

Lantern House lights the way for repurposing public buildings

The Lantern House community centre in Johannesburg's Eldorado Park is an example of adaptive reuse that repurposed and upgraded the defunct and fire-damaged Goud Street Substation into an aesthetically pleasing community centre using cross-laminated timber.

21st October 2024

On a mission to protect and conserve South Africa’s medicinal plants

Indigenous trees, their stems partially or entirely stripped of their bark and left to die in Cape Town's Newlands Forest and areas like the upper reaches of the iconic Kirstenbosch Garden, is a sad sight that greets walkers and hikers all too often.

19th August 2024

Mfundo Ngcobo - NCT Forestry PR/Communications/CSI

Join Mfundo as she takes us through a day in the life as a PR/Communication and CSI lead for NCT

19th June 2024

NCT beefs up Chain of Custody assurance

Small-scale tree farming on tribal land in the KZN midlands is alive and well, as evidenced by an enthusiastic turnout

31st May 2024

Another state plantation handed over for community management

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries & the Environment (DFFE) is on a roll as another state-owned plantation is handed over

26th April 2024

Communities taking over management of state plantations

The Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Barbara Creecy, and Deputy Minister Makhotso Sotyu, handed over the management of

24th January 2024

PEFC Group Scheme certification for small growers

Five small scale timber growers in KwaZulu-Natal have become the first participants in the award-winning Sappi Khulisa programme to achieve

22nd January 2024

Water security in the cross-hairs

The Sappi/WWF Water Stewardship Partnership is making a difference in the uMkhomazi catchment, a strategic water resource area serving a

27th August 2023

NCT’s small scale tree farmer of the year

Sydney Qedumona Hlanguza from the Umvoti tribal area has been nominated by the NCT Forestry team as their Small Scale

07th July 2023

Phillip Mpangela – guardian of the KwaMbo forests

Story and photos: Samora Chapman Phillip Mpangela has been growing trees in KwaMbonambi, northern KwaZulu-Natal, for 25 years. He started

28th March 2023

Linking small-scale wattle growers to market

The NCT forestry team hosted two field days for small-scale growers in the KZN midlands at their Glenside and Ahrens

14th March 2023

Mondi Zimele's emerging timber grower programme

Mondi Zimele's Forestry Partners Programme is a project that offers multi-faceted support to emerging timber growers in northern KwaZulu-Natal. The

27th February 2023

W Cape state plantations coming back into forestry production

A Cabinet decision – taken in 2008 – to restore 22 000 hectares of state owned forestry plantations in the

13th February 2023

Once a chainsaw operator – now a grower

Part Two in our focus on the small-scale tree farmers of KZN ... Story and pics by Samora Chapman Enoch

09th December 2022

Rejoice Shozi – Soil is the source of life

Part One in our focus on the small-scale tree farmers of KZN ... Rejoice Shozi, small-scale timber grower and local

20th July 2022

E Cape State plantations handed over to local communities

By Justin Nyakudanga The Deputy Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) Hon Ms. Makhotso Sotyu (MP) handed over

23rd February 2022

Wonderful wattle in Matimatolo

NCT’s Small-Scale Tree Farmer of the Year for 2021 demonstrates how to establish and build a sustainable tree farming operation

23rd February 2022

Agroforestry the sustainable way at Chevy Chase

An agroforestry approach is providing a rural Eastern Cape community with a chance to develop and farm their land more

15th February 2021

Top ranked risks faced by small scale tree farmers

It’s that time of year when we set new challenges for the year ahead. Except this year is different. We

18th September 2020

Prime plantation farm on auction

PRIME PLANTATION FARM – 4 300 HA – BARBERTON AREA ON AUCTION... VANS MPUMALANGA AUCTIONEERS will auction four farm portions

07th September 2020

FSC certification breakthrough for small-scale growers

While most of South Africa was still living and working under Level 3 lockdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic sweeping

28th July 2020

None but ourselves – Manguzi forestry on the rise

A story about the Manguzi timber growers by forester-at-large, JUSTIN NYAKUDANGA I recently visited Manguzi town on a forestry cruising

19th May 2020

Use lockdown time to strengthen CPAs

The outbreak of the coronavirus and the implementation of the nationwide lockdown may have deferred the land reform programme as

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The social and economic value of traditional medicine and trees

JP Landman says the FSA punches well above its weight

SA’s forestry industry advised to focus on its successes