RCL FOODS’ purpose is “We Grow What Matters” – and what matters to us are the communities in which we operate. Caeser Kenny, Corporate Affairs Director, RCL FOODS, is acutely aware of the role the business plays in the lives of its communities. “In areas like Nkomazi, for example, if our sugar mills weren’t there,
We are excited to announce that we’re one of the first companies to participate in the Youth Employment Service (YES) Programme. This programme is a business-led collaboration with Government aimed at creating employment for South African youth. Given the reality of rising unemployment (26,6% of our population nationally), we believe that we can play a positive
At RCL FOODS we are on a mission to develop our people, because we know that our future starts with the talent we are growing today. In our Chicken Agric operation we launched our very own Agric Academy to help do that, focusing on the skills our operational poultry teams need to farm the best
In 2012, when part of the land where our cane was growing near Malalane was under claim, we took this as an opportunity to implement some much-needed transformation in the local agricultural space. We did this by partnering with the beneficiaries and established a 50/50 joint venture company called Sivunosetfu (which rents the cane land
RCL FOODS prides itself on doing things differently and has long been a leading advocate of women empowerment. The Basadi Bereka (seTswana for Women at Work) programme, launched in April, is doing just that – helping women in the RCL FOODS chicken processing operation reach their ultimate and full potential. Over the past few months,