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Lost the plot: Tongaat Hulett diversified from its original sugar business to become one of the most important property players in KwaZulu-Natal. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
BUSINESS RESCUE

Abandoning core sugar business killed off Tongaat Hulett

Departing from its core business, and having its fingers in too many pies, is what crippled Tongaat Hulett and ultimately left it open to massive fraud

  • Anathi Madubela
6 min read
A 19th-century image of an indentured labourer’s dance troupe in Natal. (Image courtesy of Campbell Collections, Killie Campbell Africana Library, UKZN)
1860 1911

‘The Making of Mount Edgecombe’: A view of history from below

Indian indentured labourers’ lives are celebrated in a new book, Sugar Mill Barracks: The Making of Mount Edgecombe

  • Youlendree Appasamy
12 min read