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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
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
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
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
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.
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.