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#OFMBusinessHour - Amatikulu Sugar Mill under tight security surveillance following threats─── 19:18 Thu, 15 Jul 2021
The Amatikulu Sugar Mill in Gingindlovu, KwaZulu-Natal, is under strict surveillance by law enforcement and the farming community following reports that protesters in the province are eyeing it.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the South African Canegrowers Association, Thomas Funke, tells the OFM Business Hour that tonight the mill is being guarded by farmers, security guards, military personnel and police in case the mill is indeed targeted. Whilst the situation is tense, they are hopeful nothing will materialise.
But that is just the tip of the iceberg. At the onset of the unrest, the industry was in the middle of harvesting season meaning the more days pass that sugar cane is not milled the more the quality deteriorates and could end up being lost completely.
Funke says there is 290 000 tons of sugar cane that needs to be milled with no mills open and the potential revenue that could be lost is standing at R234 million,
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