by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Transformation & Ownership
⚡ TL;DRAfrican Rainbow Minerals grew out of a mining contracting business that took over shafts the major houses considered exhausted, ran them at lower cost, and reinvested the proceeds. It became a diversified producer with interests spanning platinum group...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Transformation & Ownership
⚡ TL;DRBlack Economic Empowerment began as debt-funded equity transfers that largely collapsed when markets fell, was rebuilt in 2003 as a scorecard measuring ownership, management, skills, procurement and enterprise development, and has since done more to...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Food, Drink & Agriculture
⚡ TL;DRClover began as a farmer cooperative pooling milk, listed in Johannesburg in 2010, was acquired by a consortium and delisted in 2020, and then closed or relocated plants while citing failing municipal water, electricity and road services. Its most durable...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Food, Drink & Agriculture
⚡ TL;DRSouth Africa is one of the world’s largest citrus exporters, sending well over a million tonnes of oranges, lemons and soft citrus to Europe, Asia, the Middle East and increasingly the United States each season. It is also an industry where record...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Food, Drink & Agriculture
⚡ TL;DRPioneer Foods was assembled in 1997 from two Cape agricultural cooperatives, built a portfolio spanning maize meal, bread, breakfast cereal and fruit juice, absorbed one of the largest competition penalties in South African history over bread...
by Ekrem Duman | Aug 26, 2026 | South Africa Company Stories, South Africa Industry, Energy & Chemicals
⚡ TL;DRBarloworld is over a century old, was once a sprawling industrial conglomerate spanning cement, steel, motor, appliances and equipment, and has narrowed to a business built around Caterpillar dealerships — where the real value lies not in selling...
