Tru News

Tru-Cape growers are competing for who can produce the biggest apple or pear. In the Pears a Cheeky weighed-in at of 554g, but then a 720g Cheeky took the lead until the current winner, a Packham’s Triumph pear weighing 972g

As over 1-billion people are still going to bed hungry and another billion are overweight, access to a healthy diet is more important than ever before. While a government think-tank is calling for the reintroduction of home economics as an

Tru-Cape sponsored The Tankwa Trek, a three day MTB experience on farms in the Ceres area. Tru-Cape growers and MTB champions, Hannes and Sakkie Hannekom participated and completed the 96km Stage 2 on Saturday, February 16, 2013 in just 4.23 hours,

A cheque of R55 340 was handed to Ian Bredell, well-loved Grabouwer who was left paralysed from the neck down after an accident during a hike in the Grootvadersbos between Swellendam and Heidelberg last year. Ian took a slow dive,

    Felicia Marion, internationally acclaimed gospel artist who now lives in Johannesburg is one of the winners of Yuppie Chef vouchers in Tru-Cape’s Applesessorize your life competition. She shot to fame in the 70’s with her group Joy and their hit song,

Each winning Weber products to the value of R5000 with Tru-Cape and Spar are the following: Ishmael Matsila, Busisiwe Eunice Madonsela, Ruben Bezuidenhout, Philile Mhlongo, Zandile of New Hanover, Vuyiswa Mahlutshana, Thulani Mbambo, Gabriella Dicio, Zandile Rosemary Dlezi, Thobile Brightness Buthelezi,

Grabouw, home to Tru-Cape apples and pears, is hosting Hope 2012, a music festival to raise funds for the Thembalitsha Foundation, an organisation with a proven track record since 2006 for assisting and restoring hope to those infected by HIV

Historic apple varieties replanted at the Cape On October 26, 2012, 350 years after Jan van Riebeeck planted the first trees in The Company Gardens at the Cape, Tru-Cape, the largest distributor of South African apples and pears, replanted early