"Rooted in Africa, Built for the World"

The Empire Hiding in Plain Sight Every time someone in Lusaka, Blantyre, Maputo, or Mbabane stirs sugar into their tea, there's a reasonable chance that sugar was grown, milled, and sold to them by a company ultimately answering to a boardroom in uMhlanga — which answers to a holding company in London — which answers, in the end, to one family's trust in the United Kingdom, endowed by a Canadian bread baron nearly seventy years ago. That company is Illovo. Its parent is ABF S