A FOOTPRINT IN FORESTRY
Forestry isn’t your normal farming operation, but it requires just as much hard work, says Mlungisi Bushula, chief executive officer of SA Fine-Tuned Trading (SAFTT).
He is standing amid a towering plantation of bottle green pine trees near Stutterheim in the Amathole District Municipality in the Eastern Cape. The air is infused with the smell of pine needles. Nearby, one of his crew is expertly manoeuvring a yellow loader to gather a dozen logs at a time.
The 100% black-youth-owned company SAFTT has been operational since 2013 and it does contract harvesting on behalf of the Amatola Forestry Company and the likes.
“We clean about 1 200 cubic meters per month by taking out
