Henk Griessel and Buks Nel with the Witte Wijn Apple tree As a “happy birthday” to the South African fruit industry, Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing’s Buks Nel and Henk Griessel, are this year’s recipients of the coveted Hortgro 1662 Industry Award for their invaluable contribution to the South ...

As one of the largest employers in the Elgin Grabouw region, Two-a-Day’s Director: Human Resource, Dimitri Jacobs, is a frontline contact person for many in the community. “Given the large numbers of people who work in the Two-a-Day Group we have largely been spared the worst of Covid-19,” ...

Harvest forecasts are sometimes nearer to crystal-ball gazing than to true science and massive fluctuations are often the norm rather than the exception.  Witzenberg Properties in Ceres, was nearly spot-on with its forecast of 130 tons of cherries delivering 132 tons that were snapped up. ...

The very first apple picked in the Company’s Garden, Cape Town on April 17, 1662 can be tasted again for the first time in eons. The Witte Wijnappel is recorded in the diary of the first Dutch Governor, and is growing again on South African soil thanks to Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing and Hortgro ...

For Robert Zulch and son, Fourie what it takes to be the best grower on their farm Wakkerstroom in Ceres’ Witzenberg Valley is the following recipe: Produce the fruit the market wants, in the best quality and in the right size. In November 2020 Wakkerstroom was awarded a number of trophies by ...

As the largest exporter of South African apples and pears, Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing knows that apples and pears can be enjoyed as thoroughly as a fresh snack right from the fridge or sliced, cooked or baked into delicious dishes. With this in mind, Tru-Cape has developed its own recipes, as ...

Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing, the largest exporter of South African apples and pears, is wholly owned by the growers from Ceres Fruit Growers and Two-a-Day in Grabouw. Well over half of all the apples and pears produced in South Africa are grown on Tru-Cape farms.  When the business began in ...

The Witte Wijnappel While we don’t know for how many years the Witte Wijn apple, the first ever apple variety picked in the Cape in 1662, was lost, estimates by Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing’s sleuths suggest it may have been  hundreds of years. Since returning the Witte Wijn apple to The ...

From fairytales to great works of art, the perfect red apple is a placeholder for a wide range of human emotions. With its recent improvements the Fuji variety is set to continue its rise. Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing, the largest exporter of South African apples and pears sold more than 570 000 ...

No Christmas trifle is complete without it and for Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing, the largest exporter of South African apples and pears, the cherry on the top is an expected 2020 bumper cherry crop. After 2019’s disappointing season in cherry volume albeit a very high value ...