Effective teamwork between Sappi, the IDC and an emerging timber grower contributes to the success of a forestry project that
"Today I am here to keep the promise to the St Paul, Mkwanazi, Vierkant, Qolombane, Ngujini, Qelane and Gqogqora communities
Community representatives, traditional leaders and councillors from the Elundini area in the Eastern Cape attended field days at the Mabandla
A community of former farm labour tenants who have acquired ownership of a timber, sugar and game farm in the
An exciting new black empowered procurement company is sourcing timber from thousands of woodlot growers in Zululand and supplying fibre
Philip Mathaba, a self-taught forester based in Kwambonambi, Richards Bay, won the NCT Tree Farmer of the Year award in
A runaway fire that destroyed several hundred hectares of plantations and extensive grazing on a land restitution farm near Babanango
Mondi has established Mondi Forestry Partners to provide support to land reform beneficiaries in an effort to sustain the productivity
Siyathuthuka Timber co-operative held its third AGM in the Dalton Farmers Hall in August. There was once again an exceptional
Themba has extensive experience in forestry with both Sappi and Mondi, and over the past 10 years or so has
Muntu Zulu, who grows timber on 69 hectares on tribal land in Zululand, is a self-taught timber farmer and entrepreneur.
Sappi is working with a community trust to manage 8 000 ha of land, half of which is planted to
The pace of land restitution is picking up, with the recent signing by Mondi Group joint Chairman, Cyril Ramaphosa, of
With more than half of the national timber estate currently subject to land claims, it is in the interests of
The Emcakwini community has claimed 38 000 ha of land in the Babanango area, stretching from the hills of Zululand
The Cata community, a community of three villages located in the foothills of the Amathola Mountains in the Keiskammahoek area
The timber growers of Samungu are well known among forestry people of KZN. They started growing gum in the early
Three communities in the Umzimkhulu area have successfully established plantations on communal land and have started their first harvest. Mabandla
