SAFCOL is a state-owned forestry company under the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) — managing plantations across Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal, and through IFLOMA in Manica and Sofala provinces, Mozambique.
Our mandate is to conduct forestry business — including timber harvesting, timber processing and related activities, both domestically and internationally — while creating jobs and uplifting rural communities.
Management and protection of the growing stock to sustainably provide logs to the industry and internal processing mills.
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FSC®-certified softwood pine logs processed at our sawmilling operations into kiln-dried, high-quality graded lumber products.
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Explore SAFCOL's hiking trails, waterfalls, picnic sites and lodge accommodation across the Mpumalanga and Limpopo forestry estates.
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Through job creation, small business support interventions and social upliftment programmes — including schools, clinics and early childhood development centres — SAFCOL invests in the rural communities surrounding our plantation estates.
About 61% of SAFCOL's plantations are directly affected by land claims. Our dedicated Land Claims Division works with claimant communities and government to achieve equitable, sustainable settlements.
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