Tru-Cape and Food Lover’s contribute 710 126 meals
For the last five years, Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing has partnered with Food Lover’s Market stores for Hunger Month, a campaign, held in May, to raise much needed funds for meals and awareness as part of World Hunger Month. “We are proud
Watch Two-a-Day being interviewed about feeding 1000 people
Watch Two-a-Day’s Carmenita Julies, a Social Worker and Raymond Kamineth, Two-a-Day’s Civil Technician, speak about their Mandela Day action to feed 1000 people. Click here to view the Plaas TV interview (in Afrikaans).
Two-a-Day staff helps to feed 1000 people on Mandela Day
For one of the largest employers in the Grabouw Valley, apple and pear packers and processors, Two-a-Day, Mandela Day is an opportunity to focus on their community outreach and this year was no different. Despite the limitations of Covid-19, Two-a-Day,
Fruit industry to offer Covid vaccinations.
According to Agri Western Cape, Chief Executive, Jannie Strydom, the collaboration between public health and the private sector to provide vaccination sites is seen as a confirmation of the willingness of the agricultural sector to assist in the prevention and
Startling pattern on a Pink Lady apple
Just 10 days into a new job at Ceres Fruit Growers, Quality Assurance Co-ordinator, Melinda Christodoulides, experienced an extremely rare occurrence: a perfectly etched image of a branch and a leaf on a Pink Lady apple. She explains: “Red apples need
CNN Marketplace Africa features Tru-Cape
Tru-Cape has been featured by CNN Marketplace Africa. "How this South African apples and pears company grew its social media presence Increasing demand from Europe and Asia has pushed South African fruit giant Tru-Cape to expand variety. The company's managing director, Roelf
Tru-Cape grower says his faith has helped him cope
The last years have been challenging for one and all but, for Andre Cloete, a Tru-Cape apple and pear grower, near Greyton in the Western Cape’s Overberg region, it has been especially hard. “My wife Charmaine died after suffering with cancer
Hat-trick year for the founder of FLASH GALA ™ who now has two new Fuji strains too.
For most in the fruit growing community the discovery of just one commercially viable strain is a dream. It might be globally unheard of for one man to discover three new strains - each awarded Plant Breeder’s Rights (PBR) -
Spreading a love of reading along with an apple a day.
Have you heard the phrase: Ask a busy person if you want to get the job done? Pam Sue-Taylor, of Sonstraal Heights, Durbanville, lives up to that maxim as an executive assistant at a local media and television production company,
Agriculture is one of the few industries that can be left to future generations.
If you plant an apple or pear tree today you might have to wait up to five years before you see the first fruit and up to seven years before the tree is in full production. This means that money
