Corporate ‘hijacking’ is a team sport – as the business rescue process at beleaguered sugar giant Tongaat Hulett Limited shows, writes amaBhungane’s Sam Sole... .
Follows the dtic’s confirmation it will oppose the provisional liquidation bid by the BRPs and support efforts towards a viable, lasting solution ... .
The news comes following more calls to help Tongaat Hulett. DTIC said that they note the latest developments relating to Tongaat Hulett Limited (THL), including the pending liquidation proceedings currently before the courts.
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thamsanqa Ntuli has announced plans to save the financially struggling Tongaat Hulett Sugar from liquidation. Last week, the 134-year-old sugar giant announced that it had filed for liquidation after business rescue plans failed.
Tongaat’s liquidation would affect smaller industries downstream which were dependent on the sugar giant for revenue, economist Sifiso Skenjana said ... “There is likely to be a direct, indirect and induced effect to be felt by people of Tongaat.
The application to place Tongaat Hulett into provisional liquidation has crystallised a reality many in the sector have feared for some time ... Tongaat is not a peripheral player ... the spectre of Tongaat ...
How does an organisation with established reporting systems, external audits and formally constituted governance structures unravel to this extent? The provisional liquidation of Tongaat Hulett (Tongaat) provides a stark answer.
"Tongaat has no access to urgent required funding, nor does it appear it will be provided with the much, needed interim further funding to sustain its operations and meet its payment obligations from the end of March 2024.
Industry leaders and a sugar farmer say that the provisional liquidation of Tongaat Hulett is a major blow to the industry and have called for Tongaat to be saved ... Tongaat Hulett supplies about 27 percent of the local market so it will be a disaster.