Tongaat sees sweeter future without heavy yoke of debt

Most shareholders vote in favour of rights issue despite minority-investor concerns about dilution

23 January 2022 - 00:00

Tongaat Hulett hopes its planned rights issue, opposed by some minority shareholders, will enable it to focus on its operations without the stifling grip of its more than R6bn debt keeping its growth ambitions in check. ​..

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