{"id":298740,"date":"2026-02-19T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/298740\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:11:07","slug":"kzn-farmers-depend-on-collapsing-tongaat-hulett-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/298740\/","title":{"rendered":"KZN farmers depend on collapsing Tongaat Hulett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTHONGATHI, KwaZulu-Natal &#8211;\u00a0Tongaat Hulett has filed for provisional liquidation after rescue efforts failed.<\/p>\n<p>The company entered business rescue in 2022,\u00a0amid deep governance and financial woes but just couldn\u2019t recover.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen warns key mills may not open ahead of April\u2019s crushing season.<\/p>\n<p>If funding isn\u2019t secured,\u00a015 500 growers won&#8217;t be able to harvest.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 40 000\u00a0jobs hang in the balance.<\/p>\n<p>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/business\/liquidation-looms-tongaat-hulett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liquidation looms for Tongaat Hulett<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Negotiations continue behind closed doors to avert a business governance crisis likened to the Steinhoff saga.<\/p>\n<p>All eyes are now on the KwaZulu-Natal High Court, which is expected to hear the matter next Friday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a ruling that could determine the fate of oThongathi.<\/p>\n<p>eNCA\u2019s Nokwazi Qumbisa visited affected farmers to file this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTHONGATHI, KwaZulu-Natal &#8211;\u00a0Tongaat Hulett has filed for provisional liquidation after rescue efforts failed. The company entered business rescue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-298740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}