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Ghost towns: The mills in Tongaat, Maidstone and Felixton have fallen silent. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
BABU PARTABSING BODASING

How sugar’s rise and collapse shaped KZN

Tongaat Hulett, once the pride of the sugar belt and a 134-year-old industrial icon, has collapsed under the weight of mismanagement, scandal and shifting global markets

  • Marlan Padayachee
7 min read
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
GLEDHOW

Sugarcane farmers at risk if mills keep defaulting on payments

Some farmers are opting to diversify to crops like macadamia nuts, bananas and avocados, but this takes time and money

  • Anathi Madubela
7 min read
Shuttered: Shakaskraal, in KZN, was prosperous before the cane mill closed and the sugar industry declined, exacerbated recently by the troubles at Tongaat Hulett and Gledhow. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
CHAKASKRAAL

Sugar industry slump a bitter pill for North Coast towns

Shakaskraal is a microcosm of what lies ahead for many towns KwaZulu-Natal if its ailing sugar mills collapse

  • Anathi Madubela
6 min read
Gledhow Sugar Mill has become the latest sugar mill to enter into voluntary business rescue, piling pressure on the industry after a similar move by Tongaat Hulett in October. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
BUSINESS RESCUE PLAN

After Tongaat, KZN sugar mill Gledhow seeks business rescue

Thousands of livelihoods in the sugar supply chain are expected to be impacted by the closure

  • Anathi Madubela
3 min read
2009 ELECTIONS

Football lessons from Motlanthe

Niren Tolsi on President Kgalema Motlanthe’s recent visit to a small KZN community: refreshing, no promises, but an activist vision of South Africa.

  • Niren Tolsi
3 min read
KWAZULU NATAL

Top cop dies in hail of bullets

A senior police officer has been shot dead near Stanger in what is believed to have been a deliberate ambush targeting the officer.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read