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Forestry

AMATHOLE FORESTRY COMPANY

The state plantations in the Amathole region were bundled into a forestry package under Amathole Forestry Company (AFC), which owns the plantations and leases the plantation land from the state.

Rance Timber and its black economic empowerment partners were successful on public tender in purchasing a majority shareholding in AFC (amathole Forestry Company) in 2005. However 40% of the state plantations in the Amathole region had been destroyed by runaway fires prior to privatisation, which resulted in disruption of log supplies. Thereafter AFC's primary focus was the stabilisation of the industry in the Amathole region, prevention of fires and the rehabilitation of the plantations. These goals have been achieved with great success - only 8% of the plantations have been destroyed by fire in the eleven years since privatisation and log supplies have been increasing every year.