Tekwane Citrus Estate
The Tekwane Citrus Estate was established by a Danish company called United Plantation Africa Ltd. In 1992, the KaNgwane government bought the farm from United Plantation Africa. The farm was under the management of Agriwane, the KaNgwane agricultural parastatal.
The newly established Mpumalanga government absorbed all parastatals existed in Kangwane and Kwa-Ndebele and formed one corporation, the MDC. The planted area of Tekwane Citrus Estate is 118.92 ha and it is made up of 42 474 lemon trees. The farm exports to the Middle East, the Far East and Russia. Nationally it supplies the local food processing plants.
Loopspruit Winery
Some 30 km north of Bronkhorstspruit, lies the white, thatched buildings of Loopspruit, South Africa’s most northerly wine estate. This wine estate was established in 1969. Today the winery boasts 20.5 ha of vines which include five white cultivars: Chenin Blanc, Chardonnay, Colombard, Raison Blanc and Muscat de Alexandre and two red cultivars, Cabaret Sauvignon and Cinsaut which yield about 230 tons each year.
Loopspruit’s wine-maker goes to great lengths to produce wines of the highest quality, in the best tradition of South African viticulture.