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Billionaire maps next chapter for southern Africa sugar giant

Summary by Semafor
The NewsSouth African billionaire Robert Gumede is attempting one of the region’s most improbable turnarounds: transforming a century-old sugar producer that collapsed under an accounting scandal into an energy champion.Gumede’s consortium bought Tongaat Hulettout of near liquidation earlier this year, taking control of a business whose mills and grower networks anchor rural economies across Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.In an interview…
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Semafor broke the news in New York, United States on Friday, July 3, 2026.
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