The latest status updates from Tongaat’s business rescue practitioners (BRPs) show that the group’s rescue still depends heavily on continued funding from the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), the implementation of an agreement with Vision, and the outcome of a court challenge by RGS, which wants the adopted business rescue plan set aside.
The sugar group entered business rescue on 27 October 2022. The latest update is the 42nd monthly report prepared under the Companies Act, which requires business rescue practitioners to report monthly when proceedings have not concluded within three months.
In February, the BRPs applied to the KwaZulu-Natal High Court to discontinue the business rescue and place Tongaat Hulett Limited into provisional winding-up. That application was initially set down for April, then postponed to 17 and 18 June to allow further talks between Vision, the IDC, Tongaat and other stakeholders.