Year: 2017

Twenty seventeen has been a good year for SAFE.  That’s the opinion at both ends of the business – from production to marketing – as well as in the engine …

Infrastructure upgrades at SAFE’s Bonathaba and Zwartfontein farms near Wellington in the Western Cape are nearing completion, and will be operational in time for the December grape harvest. “We have …

In week 47 workers on SAFE farms around the Northern Cape started picking Early Sweet and the first Prime Seedless grapes for packing and export to Europe and the Far …

Nico Schade began working at Nuwepos when he was 24 years old, growing the farm to the success it enjoys today. Nico believes that his success arises from treating everyone working on the farm with respect and by working alongside them in the field as much as he can. He sets clear goals to be achieved as motivation and he believes that hard work and commitment are the ingredients of a “recipe” for success.

SAFE is reaping a profitable harvest from new markets in Switzerland thanks to their hard won Fairtrade accreditation programme. This is the view of Wibo van den Ende, marketing and …

SAFE recently ended their successful 11-year production and management agreement with Kangela Citrus Farms – after turning the previously stressed farm to profit. Kangela, in the Eastern Cape near Addo …

Software experts at SAFE are harnessing the power of award-winning Openbravo software to streamline everything SAFE does – globally, centrally and in real time- to deliver greater efficiencies, reduce costs …

Tiaan Visser lives to lead by example. He believes that only by respecting other people will you be respected. And with mutual respect a team can achieve greatness – as reflected in Nuweland’s motto “respect earns respect”.

Cape Town-based producer and exporter SAFE (South African Fruit Exporters), has achieved via Global Fresh what many companies across the world can only dream of – a significant relationship with …