AFGRI’s empowerment partner is Izitsalo Employee Investments which is made up 40% by the AFGRI Employee Empowerment Trust and 60% by the AFGRI Charitable Trust in this way providing continued benefits to a broad based group of beneficiaries who are also employees of AFGRI.
Izitsalo owns 26.77% of AFGRI.
AFGRI believes that ownership of agricultural resources is at the heart of land reform in South Africa and that it is in the best interest of all South Africans that transformation in the agricultural industry to concluded, maintained and enhanced. As an industry leader, it is incumbent on AFGRI to take the initiative in this regard, and it has done so.
The Izitsalo empowerment platform will ensure that AFGRI retains and enhances its empowerment status, continues to meet empowerment objectives, enhances employees’ ownership and provide employees with continued empowerment benefits.
