Sometimes knowing the right lingo can make you sound like an industry insider. Just like if you are on a game drive and the ranger says over the radio they’ve spotted an “Indlovo”, those in the know will expect to see an elephant pretty soon. As the largest exporter of South African apples and ...

New Tru-Cape director Dimitri Jacobs The Grabouw apple industry runs deep in Dimitri Jacobs’ blood although, growing up, he tried hard to escape it. Both his parents were farm workers, his father at Applethwaite and his mother at Appletiser. “My parents were strict and from an early age I ...

A rose by any other name is still a rose, as Shakespeare says. But, did you know, that an apple is a rose too? Well, in the same way that almonds, apricots, peaches and cherries are all part of the rose family. Or, that eating the whole apple, including the apple peel which contains much of the ...

From left to right. Ashley Strauss (Forklift Driver) Denwill Philander (Packhouse Manager) Chantal Oosthuizen (Packer) Jolandy Davids (Packer) Caman Jones (Packer) Last week 2700 bags of apples were handed out to underprivileged people in Greyton, Villiersdorp, Botriver and Grabouw. Two-a-Day ...

While experts scramble to create and test a vaccine against Covid-19, there is plenty we can all do to keep ourselves safe and healthy. According to Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing, the largest exporter of South African apples and pears following President Ramaphosa’s lockdown is first and foremost and ...

South Africa’s largest exporter of apples and pears, Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing, owned by Two-a-Day in the Elgin, Grabouw, Villiersdorp and Vyeboom valleys and Ceres Fruit Growers in Ceres in South Africa’s Western Cape says it is ready to meet its local and export commitments and protect its staff ...

The Western Cape fruit industry contributes to rural development and transformation by creating in excess of 27 000 direct, on-farm jobs and a further 109 000 dependents who are impacted by the success of the industry. This, not to mention food security, is now at risk if the fruit ...

Ceres Fruit Growers, the preferred employer in the verdant fruit producing valley, owns half of Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing which sells fruit from Ceres and Two-a-Day in Grabouw. Pieter Graaff, one of the largest single apple and pear growers in South Africa was the 2018 National Farmer of the ...

As the largest exporter of South African apples and pears, Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing is always on the look out for ways to reduce waste. A chutney is an excellent dish to use up both surplus fruit and all those jars you’ve been saving in the cupboard. And, what’s more, it is a cost efficient ...

As the largest exporter of South African apples and pears, Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing maintains a heritage orchard of apple and pear varieties that are no longer in commercial production. Each year, this orchard is opened to the public for a guided walkabout in the company of Tru-Cape’s Quality ...